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EDITOR’S NOTES 


BBS AS AN INDUSTRY 
- IT’S TIME 


I started Boardwatch a little over 
4 1/2 years ago. Opus CBBS was 
just displacing Fido BBS as the 
software of choice. The handful of 
BBSs that did request "donations" 
from callers were generally met 
with e-mail obscenities. And bulle- 
tin boards were not even widely 
considered a viable hobby - just 
strange people who let other peo- 
ple use their computers by tele- 
phone in the evenings. To many, 
this was viewed much the same as 
they would view a club of people 
who meet periodically to swap 
toothbrushes - strange, and proba- 
bly not healthy. 


Thad a reasonably comfortable and 
embarrassingly overpaid position 
as a technical writer for a defense 
contractor - struggling to cram four 
hours of work into a single 40-hour 
work week. Actually, this was my 
third major corporation technical 
writing position in 10 years and 
each seemed almost identically 
mindless. Still, I was conscientious 
and on those days when] did arrive 
a bit late to work in the morning, I 
always tried to leave early in the 
afternoon to make up for it. It was 
the land of the brain dead. 


The online world was still a bit 
rough - but captivating enough. 
The videotext end of the "industry" 
was a wasteland of failed experi- 
ments. Commercial online services 
such as CompuServe, GEnie, and 
The Source were as good as it got 
and whenever I was online bounc- 
ing somewhat frantically, if slowly, 
from menu to menu while the bill- 
ing clock whirred away relent- 
lessly, I always had the distinctly 
uncomfortable feeling that my 
pants had somehow fallen down 
around my ankles. I timed one 
movement from one CompuServe 
menu to another at 26 seconds - 
which they billed me for quite 
promptly as I recall - and pulled 
the plug. 


~ Boardwatch Magazine - 


Since then I’ve been privileged to 
observe newspapers, telephone 
companies, and hundreds of would 
be “information providers" flush 
millions of dollars down the RJ-11 
jack without even a good show of 
thanks from the world at large. 


Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the 
grandiose assortment of social 
maladjusts, tinkerers, HAM radio 
operators, and pizza aficionados 
kept on dialing - trading 
shareware software, beating up on 
their favorite shareware BBS au- 
thors for more features, and devel- 
oping a following among local cal- 
lers who paid nothing and dialed 
locally. And there was something 
magic in it. There was no money 
and no promotion. It required hun- 
dreds of hours of effort and the 
systems in those days normally 
"crashed" if the operator left the 
room. But still the callers came. 
And still more BBSs came online. 
In late 1987, it finally dawned on 
me what it was. A baby. 


With a couple of toddlers of my own 
at the time, I knew what babies 
were. They are VERY much alive 
but they can’t do much but make 
noise and crap all over the place. 
They take up a good bit of time and 
attention and they really aren’t 
very useful in their native form. 
But they have a lot of potential. 
Just one of them can change the 
world in the interval between ar- 
riving in it and leaving it - and 
there are an awful lot of them. 


Videotext looked to me a lot like 
alchemy - the age old quest to turn 
lead into gold. “We'll take money, 
mix it with technology, and it will 
turn into more money." That 
seemed to be the plan and I could 
detect no vision behind it for the 
future more complex than that. If 
it had WORKED I wouldn’t have 
cared, it would still be uninterest- 
ing. But of course it didn’t. 


Bulletin boards were different. 
They grew in all sorts of directions 
without any money at all. Many 
things were tried and most failed. 
But the innovation continued. The 
guys who were trying to write the 
software became heroes. Little 
hope of ever making any money - 
some actually didn’t want to. And 
the others had nothing to encour- 
age them. But new programs ap- 


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peared weekly and existing pro- 
grams were in a constant state of 
update. One title would sweep the 
nation and then another. And with 
each an army of operators would 
follow with utilities, techniques, 
and surprising new things to put 
online. Many were rude, loud, and 
stupid. Others even then showed a 
captivating charm. BBSs were an 
infant industry. 


And just like a baby, you can’t tell 
by looking down into the crib what 
it’ll do when it grows up, but it will 
grow up to do somethingh. 


The corporate world, on the other 
hand, reeked of age. The walls of 
this social and economic paradigm 
were crumbling with decay and I 
seemed surrounded by fumbling 
men who had never been anywhere 
or done anything notable besides 
snuffle up to the public trough and 
spout endless advice about "the 
way things were" and "how the 
world worked." Finally, I handed 
them my badge (they all thought 
we were Marshals of some sort) 
and took a real long lunch. 


Ive been playing with the "baby" 
ever since. Of course, I was hardly 
alone. Anumber of other individu- 
als had put down a token on "the 
BBS industry" as well and gener- 
ally the ongoing question - usually 
uttered with some frustration and 
no small level of impatience was 
"When will it walk? Is it an indus- 
try yet?" 


And no matter how hard they 
wished it would be, and no matter 
how hard they worked to "make it 
so", the answer remained the 
same. "No - it’s a baby." About half 
the people involved with bulletin 
boards thought it never would 
grow up and the other half thought 
it already should have, but just like 
a baby, it worked on its own clock. 


The good news is - the kid gained 
his feet in the late spring and early 
summer of 1991. The lurch out of 
infancy has begun. We can mea- 
sure this in a number of ways, BBS 
software sales, BBS calling activ- 
ity, pay BBS cash flow, modem unit 
sales, new callers, print media cov- 
erage, but it all comes up the same. 
The traditional summer activity 
lull didn’t happen this year. Every- 
thing increased through April, 


May, June, July, and August. Since 
activity normally increases dra- 
matically each fall season in Sep- 
tember - December, I really don’t 
know what the numbers mean 
anymore except they are headed 
explosively up. 


Perhaps nothing so pointedly 
shows the sea change in the online 
world as the FidoCon91. And a 
little behind the scenes view is 
probably in order here. 


Peter Young, of the Interface 
Group, the people who put on the 
fall COMDEX computer show in 
Las Vegas each fall, called in April. 
He proposed we help sponsor a 
BBS Pavilion at COMDEX this 
year with BBS software vendors, 
modem manufacturers, and BBS 
operators all showing under one 
tent so to speak. A kind of "theme” 
section titled Boardwatch BBS Pa- 
vilion. I agreed the concept had 
some merit and it was time for the 
BBS industry to have a coming out 
party. Peter handed me over to 
gon Grecko to work out the de- 
tails. 


I expressed my concerns regarding 
location to Grecko. What he pro- 
posed was anew "Networking Site" 
at the fabulous new Mirage Hotel. 
This was a little dicey as there 
hadn’t been any COMDEX activity 
at the Mirage previously. But the 
concept of a site dedicated to LANs, 
modems, connectivity, and of 
course BBSs, had an obvious al- 
lure. We agreed to back it. There 
were two provisos he noted. They 
had to Jand Novell as an "anchor" 
for the site and we had to come up 
with eight to ten vendors for the 
Pavilion. 


We contacted a number of BBS 
players and were a little amazed to 
find that despite the considerable 
expense of displaying at COM- 
DEX, they were almost all quite 
ready to be part of a BBS Pavilion 
under the conditions we quite 
forthrightly described. I handed 
Grecko 14 virtually "done deals" 
and thought we were off and run- 
ning. 


What followed was one of the slim- 
iest double crosses I’ve had the 
privilege of seeing done in day- 
light. Grecko called to tell me he 
had some "great" news. They had 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


landed Novell ok as anchor for the 
networking site and they were 
moving the BBS Pavilion to the 
Riviera hotel - (the ghost city of 
COMDEX). 


When I pointed out to Grecko that 
we had already told 14 vendors 
they were going to be in the Mirage 
at the networking site, he just 
laughed and told me they didn’t 
have anything in writing and not 
to worry about it. The Interface 
Group would give me FREE dis- 
play space, top billing, and some 
action on one of the session pro- 
grams to "go along with the pro- 
gram" (you can’t possibly turn 
THAT down Jack) and if I went, 
they would all go along so he wasn’t 
worried. 


I guess this is the point where 
Boardwatch will always be a little 
magazine instead of a big one. I 
never do quite get it right. I told 
him that while I didn’t really mind 
him being a lying sack of s**t I 
didn’t particularly care for him try- 
ing to make me out to be one. De- 
spite some impressive backpedall- 
ing on his part, we pulled out ofthe 
pavilion concept in a pretty quick 
way anyway. I called the 14 ven- 
dors and told them we were out of 
the program and they would have 
to make their own individual ar- 
rangements with Interface Group 
for COMDEX. I understand two or 
three of them went ahead and took 
space. Grecko decided I was a lu- 
natic for walking away from it. I 
decided he didn’t exist. All in alla 
pretty clean finish for a rather 
messy affair. (Note for all you as- 
piring millionaires - this is NOT 
the way to do it.) 


But as things are wont to do, they 
again turned out for the best. 
COMDEX is arguably the biggest 
computer show in the U.S. But it 
has gotten so big, and so expensive, 
that a lot of vendors are question- 
ing the wisdom of going. Rumor 
has it that Novell, the anchor for 
the networking site, may not show 
at all. They consider the NetWorld 
show much more effective and are 
apparently having trouble figuring 
out how to break down their dis- 
play at that show and get it to 
COMDEX in time to display. 


An isolated instance? Maybe. But 
increasingly, the very size of COM- 
DEX is making it difficult to deal 
with. If you agree to meet someone 
somewhere to discuss anything 
business related, it becomes al- 
most impossible to make happen. 
With 120,000 people there, you 
can’t get a cab, you can’t get any- 
where. And it’s really NOT all in 
one place - more like nine places 
each a mile or two apart. The ven- 
dors are getting nickled and dimed 
to death such that it realistically 
costs $35,000 to put a small booth 
on the floor and they're not recov- 
ering halfthat amount in resulting 
followups. Largely because of the 
sprawl, the 120,000 results in ac- 
tual traffic of maybe 10,000in most 
locations and handing out two 
thousand pieces of literature is a 
good week for most.The net result 
is that many vendors are generat- 
ing MORE leads and more produc- 
tive results at smaller, more fo- 
cused specialty trade shows - like 
NetWorld. 


Which brings us back to FidoC- 
on91. FidoCons had dwindled to 
meetings of 75-100 network gurus. 
They were tough on vendors. And 
if you went to one and weren’t one 
of the "inside clique" attending the 
many private not-so-secret secret 
meetings, you were usually left 
standing by the swimming pool 
talking to the six or eight other 
outsiders who had mistakenly 
come thinking it would be a good 
thing to attend. 


About two weeks after telling 
COMDEX to go pound sand, I was 
approached by Terry Travis, a 
member of the FidoCon committee 
who was a little depressed. His 
band of merry men were tasked 
with holding the FidoCon here in 
Denver but he was having some 
trouble getting the word out and 
generating interest. He wanted to 
make it a big show, but had actu- 
ally gotten grief from people in 
FidoCon for "advertising" the show 
in Fido’s own echomail confer- 
ences. 


Frankly, [ve had more people at 
backyard barbecues here at the 
house than I’ve seen at most Fido- 
Cons. But this guy REALLY 
wanted to pull this off well. And it 
was a little infectious. What if we 
COULD get a couple of hundred 
BBSers together in one place. It 
WOULD be fun. 


Phil Becker of eSoft, Inc. is based 
across the valley in Aurora. He had 
attended every FidoCon for years. 
He agreed it would be a "good 
thing" to have a bigger one. We got 
together to talk over the concept of 
a show a little broader than Fido- 
Net. Travis nearly fainted with re- 
lief when we decided 150 was do- 
able. The more we talked, the more 
the number moved to 200-226. I 
finally admitted I would get all hot 
and wet if 300 showed up. 


We contacted a few vendors. The 
response was almost shocking. 
There was some reticence about 
the FidoNet connection, but when 
we outlined our plans for a slightly 
wider show, the answer was not 
only YES, but more along the lines 
of "What took so long? Why hasn't 
someone done this before? It’s 
time." We made up a wish list of 
vendors who had never been to a 
FidoCon - thinking we might talk 
a couple of them into trying it. 
They ALL wanted to come - PCB- 
oard, Wildcat, Searchlight, Major 
BBS. Then, out of the blue PROD- 
IGY wanted to come. Suddenly the 
banquet, with seating for 150, was 
sold out. Then the vendor area sold 
out. The Sheraton Hotel sold out. 
The Double Tree hotel across the 
street sold out and the Roadway 
Inn down the street was filling 
fast, All at once, the thing was run- 
ning away from us. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


On August 16th, over 400 BBSers 
showed up in Denver for the big- 
gest BBS bash that has ever been. 
Representatives from CompuS- 
erve, BIX, Prodigy, and ZiffNet 
showed up. Dozens of people came 
from overseas. Phil Becker and I 
had agreed to do a couple of ses- 
sions on how to make your BBS 
make money and were stunned to 
look up and see most of the 400 
attendees trying to cram intoatiny 
meeting room at the end of the hall 
where the session was scheduled. 

The consensus by Sunday’s close 
was that it was the greatest thing 
to have happened to the BBS world 
ever. Most of the vendors were de- 
manding to know who to sign up 
with for the best floor spot at next 
year’s event. The baby was on its 
feet and crying somewhat demand- 
ingly to be fed. 


By way of epilogue, we’ve formed a 
corporation to plan, organize, and 
promote another BBS show in 
Denver next year. The company is 
titled Online Network Exposi- 
tions, Inc. (ONE, Inc.) We're call- 
ing the show The Online Network- 
ing Exposition and BBS Confer- 
ence (The ONE BBSCON) and it 
will NOT be affiliated with FidoN- 
et or held under the auspices of the 
FidoCon. By taking a bit wider 
view yet to serving the BBS indus- 
try as a whole and more actively 
promoting it, we fully intend to put 
1200-1500 BBSers in one spot to 
meet the movers and shakers in 
this infant industry and talk about 
their favorite sport. And rather 
than fork over megabucks to wade 
through the mess in Las Vegas, the 
BBS industry now has a specialty 
trade show of its own. Until we get 
ONE, Inc. up and running, you can 
contact us either at eSoft - 
(303)699-6565 or here at 
Boardwatch (303)973-6038 voice - 
(303)973-4222 data. See you there. 


Oh, ‘and a final thanks to John 
Grecko of the Interface Group. You 
did NOT miss the birth of the most 
exciting new segment of the per- 
sonal computer industry - you gave 
it away. 


Jack Rickard 
Editor/Publisher 
Boardwatch Magazine. 


LETTERS 


Address correspondence to Letters 
to the Editor, Boardwatch Maga- 
zine, 5970 South Vivian Street, 
Littleton, CO 80127. 


Dear Jack: 


What a great magazine you have. 
Not only is it useful, but it’s filled 
with great dirt. I actually read it 
cover to cover. Just one small cor- 
rection though. 


The U.S. did not break the German 
ENIGMAcode. Alan M. Turing did, 
during WW2, in the British Secret 
Service. He did it using a paper- 
tape calculator he designed and 
built called the Bombe. he did a lot 
of very basic crypto work. He was 
a pioneer hacker; a mathematician 
who taught himself electronics in 
order to build the world’s first all- 
electronic computers (predating 
American computers by years.) He 
was the person who came up with 
an obscure concept called "stored 
program", whereby a machine can 
modify its own instructions, while 
working on a seminal problem in 
mathematics. His British Secret 
Service work was classified until 
the 70’s. He did other pioneering 
work in mathematics and biology. 


He was also gay, and quite “out” in 
the British Secret Service, in the 
40’s no less. I read about him first 
in A HISTORY OF COMPUTING 
IN THE 20TH CENTURY (1980, 
Academic Press). There’s an excel- 
lent, highly technical, biography of 
Turing called ALAN TURING: 
THE ENIGMA by Andrew Hodges 
(1983, Simon & Schuster). I recom- 
mend both books to anyone inter- 
ested in the history of what we're 
collectively doing here. 


Imagine where we would be if he 
had been censured because of his 
sexuality. Simply put, we'd have no 
computers, but only overgrown 
possibly-programmable calcula- 
tors, which is where most of the 
world was heading at that time. 


(From another gay programmer), 
Tom Jennings/Fido Soft- 
ware/World Power Systems, Box 
77781, San Francisco, CA 94107. 


Dear Tom: 


You are ofcourse quite right and we 
stand corrected. In fact, I’m a 
afraid you are too kind in referring 
to our article on Pretty Good Pri- 
vacy (PGP10.ZIP). It’s a good pro- 
gram and we omitted the usual 
second pass on this article botching 
among other things the name as 
Pretty Good Protection vice the cor- 
rect Pretty Good Privacy title as 
well as the spelling of the authors 
name (correctly Phil Zimmer- 
mann). Actually I was aware that 
the British actually cracked 
ENIGMA making our obvious faux 
pas in claiming U.S. credit for it 
the more damning. Worse, this was 
an important story on an impor- 
tant issue that is being picked up 
all over the country - complete with 
our errors. 


I’m not quite convinced we 
wouldn’t have had stored program 
computers without Turing. Such 
developments often happen nearly 
simultaneously in different parts of 
the world when their "time" has 
come. Pm having a little difficulty 
picturing a world where it failed to 
occur to anyone that they could "re- 
wire" their hardware in a stored 
numeric series. 


But your point is well taken that 
there is a real danger of loss to 
society in disabusing individuals 
over matters not apropos to the sub- 
ject at hand. The only proper arena 
to discriminate on matters of sex is 
sex. And computers, mathematics, 
national security, employment, 
and achievement in research and 
academia, are all rather distinctly 
not in that arena. I didn’t know 
Turing was gay, and I’m going to 
guess it took a pretty strong intel- 
lect to function competently, much 
less brilliantly, as a known gay in 
that era. I would like to think he 
would have a clearer path today. 


For our readers who may be won- 
dering, Tom Jennings authored the 
original FIDO BBS in 1984, 
started FidoNet which today sports 
more than 11,000 member BBS sys- 
tems world-wide, and was 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


awarded the Andrew J. Fleugle- 
man award for technical excellence 
for same. 


Jack Rickard 
Dear Mr. Rickard: 


This letter has several purposes, 
first and foremost to thank you for 
a very enjoyable magazine, 
BOARDWATCH. I look forward to 
every month’s issue. I enjoy read- 
ing the latest and greatest in the 
on-line world. Certainly, I know of 
no other publication that caters so 
well to modemers, and includes 
many helpful items for BBS sys- 
tem operators. 


In particular, I enjoy reading Alan 
Applegate’s technical column and 
your "Editor’s Notes." Now that 
we've met you and your two daugh- 
ters, perhaps a photo of Mrs. 
Rickard is in order in a future edi- 
tion. 


Secondly, I would like to add my 
support of your publication’s ad- 
vertising policy. A buck is a buck, 
and while I don’t agree with some 
advertiser’s sexual preference, 
their dollars spend as well as 
anyone’s an keeps 
BOARDWATCH rolling off the 
presses. For thatI am very grateful 
to all of your advertisers. 


a 
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ads 


— vr are —_ 


Lastly, it is indeed on a sorry note 
that I inform you that after 5 years 
of serving the Houston on-line 
community, HOUSTON INLINE 
is closing its doors on August 31, 
1991. Ron Crowther, who has 
maintained our Houston BBS list 
for the last several years, will be 
going back East. Ron certainly de- 
serves a lot of credit for the success 
of all BBS systems in the Houston 
area. 


Effective with the September 
Houston Area 713 BBS list, I will 
be taking over as list editor. The 
Houston Area 713 BBS List will be 
available from my BBS, THE 
ATOMIC CAFE BBS, at (713)530- 
8875. I would appreciate it if you 
make the necessary changes to 
your "Boardwatch List of BBS 
Lists.” 


Thank you Mr. Rickard 
David E. Wachenschwanz. 
Dear Mr. Wachenschwanz. 


Thanks for the note on the change 
of guard in Houston. We'll be most 
happy to add your system to our 
List of Lists. I don’t share your 
sorrow that Ron has moved on. 
While tt may be a loss to Houston, 
Pm persuaded you can carry on in 
good style. And it’s been my obser- 
vation that list keepers never quit - 


they just move to new cities that 
ALSO need BBS lists. Pm hoping 
we'll see a Ron Crowther BBS list 
from his new location. 


Mr. Applegate has been on hiatus 
due to pressing career affairs, but 
we’re assured that he will be rejoin- 
ing us shortly with his regular col- 
umn, 


Lastly, I actually have three daugh- 
ters. ’!'m mildly embarrassed to 
have apparently inadvertently con- 
verted Boardwatch into the 
Rickard Family Photo Album but 
let’s not do anything HALF way. On 
the previous page you'll find a 
photo of Fortunata Com- 
mendadore Almacen Rickard, my 
wife of sixteen years, and all three 
girls in order of tonnage: Jessica, 
Jennifer, and Jacquelyn. Ive been 
advised as of yesterday afternoon 
that we STILL don’t know what 
causes this and can’t find any way 
to stop it. Clearly, the mustard 
seed/honey/ dill paste painted on 
the front door didn’t cause the 
angel to pass us by. A fourth spawn 
of clan Rickard is due this coming 
April 18. [ve spent most of this 
afternoon taking my wife around 
the neighborhood introducing her 
to all the little boys in the area so 
she can see what they look like and 
hopefully figure out how to make 
one, but thus far she seems deter- 
mined to populate the planet with 
little femme fatals - which is actu- 
ally ok by me. She most commonly 
goes by "Nancy", an unfortunate 
Americanization of her family 
nickname of "Nating”. She hails 
from the small village of Catmon 
Bago on the island of Cebu in the 
central Philippine Islands. 


Jack Rickard 


Dear Jack, 

Enjoyed your non-cryptic August 
column. Prompts me to pass along 
a thought of mine (& maybe others, 
but who knows?): As an answer to 
that political malaise of many, who 
feel they can’t have an impact on 
ye olde political process, wouldn’t 
it be interesting if ordinary citi- 
zens got the line-item vote? Never 
mind a line-item veto on the budget 
that presidents always seem to be 
seeking, but a citizen referendum, 
line-by-line, on the federal budget 
bill. This would all be done via a 
national voting BBS-like system, 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


of course. Text of all legislation 
would be on-line, as would the Con- 
gressional Record, of course, etc. 
(Live coverage would be on C- 
Span.) 


I suppose we could go all the way 
with such a system, and just have 
a citizen vote on every piece of leg- 
islation. It'd be technically possi- 
ble, no doubt, though where would 
we all get the time to figure out how 
we'd like to vote? And of course, 
there’d be a need for a Constitu- 
tional Amendment of significant 
impact to enable it all, never mind 
the technical aspects. 

But it certainly would get folks 
directly involved again, and would 
lessen the impact of lobbyists, who 
then would have to lobby every 
citizen instead of just, what is it, 
585 solons? all within easy com- 
muting distance at the Capitol? 
Another topic, the de-regulated 
phone system (it may be that this 
effort at de-regulation will, like the 
airline deregulation effort, yield a 
more painful monopoly that we 
ever had before under regulation, 
but that’s an aside): Seems to me I 
remember seeing something in a 
Hayes 1200 baud modem hand- 
book (can’t find it in the 2400 man- 
ual) showing a hookup from com- 
puter to modem to ham radio. Is it 
possible to do this? Is anyone doing 
a BBS by ham radio link? Here 
encryption would seem profoundly 
useful. Would also set you free 
from the phone system. Perhaps 
also make it cheaper to DX (is it?) 
around the globe via the Kennely 
Heavyside E-Layer, is it? (1 re- 
member but a tiny bit of this ham 
radio stuff from my high-school 
days). Just curious to know if you 
know of anything/anyone doing 
something like this. 


Sincerely 

Bill Wilt 

Northeast Albuquerque 
New Mexico 


Bill: 


The concept of electronic democ- 
racy is indeed an enticing one. It 
brings up the rather long running 
debate over Jeffersonian vs. Ham- 
iltonian democracy the essence of 
which is do we select our wisest and 
best to decide for us or do we select 
minions to represent us. Avery real 


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case can be made both ways - ac- 
counting for the length and persis- 
tence of the debate. My own per- 
sonal views tend somewhat away 
from the government by herd hys- 
teria format, but admittedly the 
wise and beneficent club of sage 
fathers theory has some serious 
flaws as well - particularly where 
it happens to strike reality a glanc- 
ing blow. Either way, I agree that 
there is certainly room for political 
activism, consensus building, and 
action via the uniquely participa- 
tory elements offered by the online 
world. 


A line item vote by the technically 
modem equipped? Where do those 
NOT so equipped fall into this 
plan? Since our Congressmen, 
who’s full time job revolves around 
considering and voting on budget- 
ary and legislative matters, don’t 
actually all read all of what they’re 
voting on, what would inspire the 
online population to be knowledge- 
able on what THEY are voting on 
under such a plan? And might the 
media gain an enormous power be- 
yond what they already have under 
such group mob-ocracy? Would this 
upset a fairly robust current bal- 
ance between government, media, 
and people now status quo? The 
concept has been around since an 
early Heinlein story in the 1960s 
that I am familiar with and almost 
certainly predates that. It still has 
some technical and social problems 
30 years later, but is nonetheless 
interesting. 


As to PC to HAM radio, what you 
describe is widely known as packet 
radio. The Tucson Amateur Radio 
group was experimenting with 
packet radio as early as 1981. In 
1985, they released their new TNC2 
packet radio device. It has grown 
into a communications medium in 
its own right and the HAM’s are 
curiously unconcerned with local 
telephone installation fees, long 
distance rates, and telephone credit 
cards. The primary drawbacks are 
there are strict regulations prohib- 
iting any type of commercial mes- 
sage traffic and you need an Ama- 
teur Radio FCC license to partici- 
pate. The FCC just made this easier 
by introducing a technician class 
license that does not require Morse 
Code proficiency. 


Hardware-wise you will need a de- 
vice termed a Terminal Nede Con- 
troller (TNC) to perform the 
packetization and addressing re- 
quired under the AX.25 packet 
radio recommendation. It also in- 
cludes an internal Audio Fre- 
quency Shift Keying (AFSK) 
modem. The TNC I was originally 
developed by the Tucson Amateur 
Packet Radio Corporation 
(TAPR)in 1982. They sold the unit 
in kit form and licensed it to man- 
ufacturers. The TNC 2 was devel- 
oped in August 1985 and provided 
operation up to 9600 bpsinamuch 
smaller package containing three 
circuit cards, components, and in- 
structions for assembly for $110. 
Contact Andy Freeborn NOCCZ, 
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Cor- 
poration, 5222 Borrego Drive, Col- 
orado Springs, CO 
80918:(719)598-8373. 


If you are not interested in putting 
together kits, Gwyn Reedy of 
Tampa operates a small business 
titled PacComm that sells ready- 
made packet radio equipment. He 
sells a very simple little terminal 
node controller titled the TINY IT 
for avery reasonable $119.95. Con- 
tact Gwyn Reedy, PacComm, 3652 
West Cypress St., Tampa, FL 
33607; (813)874-2980 voice; He 
also operates a BBS with informa- 
tion on an entire line of packet 
radio equipment for both HAMs 
and commercial use at (813)874- 
3078. 


In the just interesting related BBS 
department, Dr. Jeff Wallach of 
Carrollton Texas operates an elec- 
tronic bulletin board system dedi- 
cated to Satellite Imaging and 
AMSAT activities at (214)394- 
7438. Finally, Ohio is just a wasp 
nest of packet radio activity with 
about 300 stations on a radio Wide 
Area Network (picture BBSs with 
no wires). Gary Sanders runs a 
very informative HAM BBS that IS 
accessible by telephone titled 
N8EMR Ham BBS at (614)895- 
2553 we found very useful. 


There are some commercial efforts 
at radio connections including 
ATE&Ts Safari laptop with e-mail 
and IBM/ Motorola’s ARDIS proj- 
ect. Most seem directed at over the 
road trucking companies and both 


the vision and pricing of these sys- 
tems is not only limited, but gener- 
ally silly. 


Basically, I see Personal Commu- 
nications Network telephone tech- 
nology and cellular telephone mak- 
ing the concept largely moot - but 
you still wind up paying the tele- 
phone company. I’m still looking 
for a pocket cellular telephone with 
an RJ-11 jack in it for a modem. 
I¢ll happen. 


Jack Rickard 
Dear Mr. Rickard 


I write this letter in the wake of 
FidoCon 91 and it is an open letter 
to all who attended the conference. 
A constant theme throughout the 
conference was that the virtual 
community created by BBSes 
would be a great egalitarian tool, 
forming a universe that would be 
untainted by racism, classism, or 
discrimination of any type. 


As the Black Female in attendance 
at the conference, let me inform 
you that you have a long way to the 
realization of that goal. I was ill 
treated by conference organizers 
who saw it fit to first register White 
attendees who were behind me in 
line. This slap in the face was suc- 
ceeded by two days of averted eyes 
and uncomfortable replies to my 
attempts to discuss conference 
proceedings with other partici- 
pants. I was relegated to the role 
of nonperson at this conference, by 
people who continually spouted 
how wonderful they are because 
they can chat by computer with 
persons who are confined at home. 
Even you, Mr. Rickard, put up a 
shield so that you could ignore my 
attempts to speak with you. 


Shame on you! The attendees at 
FidoCon have left me with an ev- 
erlasting impression that they can 
deny their prejudices on the key- 
board but in practice have no 
qualms at being rude to persons 
who are different. Is the keyboard 
a haven for those who cannot be 
human and humane in the world 
at large? Or is it that the attendees 
(who never stopped congratulating 
themselves on their genius) place 
themselves on a plane too high to 
deal with people who use the tools 
that they create? 


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I did meet a few notable people who 
provided some kindness during 
those horrible three days. Let me 
thank Gene and Katie Hamilton 
for their openness. I hope that the 
vast majority of the people who did 
not attend this convocation are 
similar to the Hamiltons, decent 
people who are unafraid to be open 
to those who are different. 


The computer is a valuable tool for 
communication. A tool. Don’t fool 
yourselves; you may know how to 
manipulate this tool, but it will not 
erase the prejudices of the user. 
This is a small world. I challenge 
you to look up from your key- 
boards, abandon your virtual com- 
munity, and participate responsi- 
bly in the real community. 


Sincerely, 


Lisa M. Downing 


Dear Ms. Downing: 


You cover a lot of uncomfortable 
ground here, but let’s mark it offa 
yard at a time. In general, I can’t 
help much with averted eyes and 
uncomfortable replies. It is possible 
to mandate equality and agree that 
it is desirable, but we can’t force 
everyone to “be comfortable." I’m 
going to guess I have a problem 
with your characterization of your- 
self as treated as a “nonperson" at 
the conference. Whenever you bring 
in over 400 people from around the 
globe, the vast majority of whom 
have never met in person, and put 
them in the same place at the same 
time, the first day is a little awk- 
ward for everyone. It always is for 
me. They tend to clique up among 
those they DO know - at least at first 
and those who get the most out of 
such conventions work quite hard 
at breaking through the ice. If you 
want to get really conscious about 
it and ascribe lack of success in this 
to your blackness, and that works 
for you, have at it. Fat, cross-eyed, 
or stuttering would work about as 
well, but the polished, pretty, white, 
and genteel seemed a little uncom- 
fortable as well at the start. 


In broad generalizations, I do find 
most of the online crowd more tol- 
erant and accepting than most. At 
the same time, many are attracted 


to the relative anonymity of the vir- 
tual world through their keyboards 
precisely because they are some- 
what uncomfortable in real world 
social situations - let’s avoid the 


terms socially graceless or malad- 
justed. 


The reason the virtual online soci- 
ety will be largely classless and 
colorless is that there isn’t any 
means fo tell if the person you are 
dealing with is black, white, hand- 
icapped, isolated, etc. There is a 
marvelous equalizing effect 
wherein you are judged by your 
written word alone - because that’s 
all anyone has to go on. A confer- 
ence such as the one here in Denver, 
is a "real" world exercise. In a per- 
fect real world it shouldn’t make a 
difference, but it probably does - at 
least at some level. In the online 
world, it shouldn’t make a differ- 
ence, and it generally doesn’t. 


I have no idea what sort of "shield" 
you think I put up at the show. If I 
did so it was not to avoid talking to 
you or anyone else. I talked with 
what seemed like hundreds of peo- 
ple from around the world. I cer- 
tainly didn’t intentionally shield 
anything and don’t recall avoiding 
a black woman. I apologize for any 
brusqueness on my part. In truth, 
I myself am a bit more comfortable 
with the written word than a public 
speaking role and was put in a 
position of speaking quite publicly. 
The intensity of this meeting was 
such that from my point of view 
everyone was constantly talking to 
everyone, and someone was want- 
ing a word for virtually the entire 
show. And I did quite desperately 
want to talk to allofthem, but there 
were three days and 408 people. 
Despite the fact that I slept less 
than 6 hours in four days, many of 
those I particularly wanted to 
speak to, including the Hamiltons, 
wound up being three minute con- 
versations in the lobby when I my- 
self would have much preferred 45 
minutes over coffee. I am married 
interracially, cross-culturally, and 
bi-lingually and am really not at 
all uncomfortable with a very wide 
array of people one-on-one - much 
less a black American that speaks 
the same language. I am a tad un- 
comfortable with large crowds - but 
I did the best I could. Bottom line 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


ts that I doubt you were as unique 
and out of place as you apparently 
delight in thinking you were. 


The registration incident is a bit 
more concrete. The FidoCon com- 
mittee handled registration and I 
had nocontrol or even inputon that 
process. But while I do not condone 
even the possibility of what you de- 
scribe, ’!m having a little trouble 
picturing it actually happening. 
Every time I happened by the reg- 
istration area early in the confer- 
ence, there WAS no line - more like 
a mob scene with people in one 
enormous and thoroughly confused 
knot. While not precisely the way I 
would have handled it, I can’t re- 
ally picture how you determined 
that someone “behind you in line" 
got served ahead of you. I would 
have been encouraged to see some 
semblance ofa "line". 


While anumber ofthings happened 
this year that I would have done 
differently, there wouldn’t have 
been much I could have done about 
it had I known. For this reason, 
among others, we’ve formed a com- 
pany (ONE, Inc.) specifically to put 
on the Online Networking Exposi- 
tion and BBS Conference (ONE 
BBSCON) here in Denver next year. 
It won’t actually be a FidoCon and 
we expect more on the order of 1200- 
1500 people rather than the 408 
attending this year. Some problems 
will get better and others probably 
worse. But I’m going to guess that 
I can state with some confidence 
that registration will be handled 
quite professionally. It is certainly 
my intention that it be so. I would 
certainly like to see you at next 
years event - leaving the "only black 
female" role at home and bringing 
an online enthusiast to the table. 
Lil not base my “everlasting im- 
pression" of you on one letter. 


Jack Rickard 


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TELEBITS 


PC MAGAZINE ONLINE 
MODEM GIVEAWAY 


PC Magazine has been pretty pro- 
gressive regarding online activity. 
For some time they’ve operated the 
PC MagNet service on the Compu- 
Serve network. The service has re- 
cently been expanded and re- 
named ZiffNet. The parent com- 
pany of PC Magazine is Ziff Com- 
munications. Ziff also publishes 
PC Week, PC Computing, PC 
Sources, Computer Shopper, Mac- 
WEEK, and MacUser magazines. 


ZiffNet goes beyond another “me 
too" online service. It provides sev- 
eral databases we find useful in- 
cluding Computer Database Plus. 
This database provides the full 
text of articles appearing in some 
45 computer related periodicals. It 
also provides article abstracts 
from a wider range of 125 publica- 
tions. Another database we find 
useful is Computer Directory. This 
little item contains profiles of some 
69,000 computer products and 
11,000 company profiles. The Ziff- 
Net Reviews Index catalogs some 
8500 product reviews appearing in 
PC Magazine, PC Computing, and 
PC Week since 1987. 


The service also provides all the 
little utility programs that ap- 
peared in PC Magazine over the 
past several years ready for 
download along with numerous 
shareware programs. Recently, 
they've begun offering Hayes Mi- 
crocomputer Products SMART 
COM-EZ terminal program for 
download. 


To promote the revised online ser- 
vice, ZiffNet is giving away a free 
Hayes Ultra 9600 bps modem to 
one caller each day for 100 days 
running from August 7 through 
November 14. They actually pick a 
10 minute time slot for each day 
and do a random drawing from 
everyone who's logged on during 
that time. The service is run by 15 
system operators now under Rick 
Ayre. CompuServe subscribers can 
access ZiffNet by simply entering 


GO ZNT: at any prompt. ZiffNet, 
One Park Avenue, New York, NY 
10016. Interestingly, Ziff Davis 
just purchased Public Brand Soft- 
ware, a shareware vendor pre- 
viously owned by Bob Ostrander. 


In the area of rumor, it would ap- 
pear that PC World wants to be 
online as well. The magazine 
seems to be planning a system that 
also uses primarily X.25 network 
connections although we’re not 
sure which network. The surprise 
may be that they are seriously con- 
sidering using COCONET soft- 
ware with the Unix operating sys- 
tem to do the deed. First reviewed 
in Boardwatch nearly two years 
ago, COCONET provides a very 
easy to use graphical interface but 
requires callers to use a specific 
proprietary terminal program to 
access the graphics. 


FIDOCONS1 - 408 ATTEND 
BIGGEST BBS BASH EVER 


The International Fido Network, 
or FidoNet, has grown from a 
handful of BBS in 1984 to over 
11,000 systems today. Starting 
with a meeting in Ken Kaplan’s 
living room in 1985, an annual 
fact-to-face convention, the FidoC- 
on, has been held each year. The 
FidoCon86 meeting in Colorado 
Springs was probably the hey-day 
for this convention with some 135 
attendees. In recent years,it has 
dwindled down to 75 or 80 of the 
faithful. Additionally, the conven- 
tion had developed a reputation as 
something of a tough crowd best 
avoided among most modem and 
commercial software vendors. 


FidoCon91 represented a dramatic 
reversal in fortunes, proving that 
with a bit more promotion and 
more participation from industry 
vendors, the concept of an industry 
trade show for the online world 
was indeed viable. A total of 408 
BBS operators attended this year’s 
event along with some 22 vendors 
presenting their wares. Many had 
no FidoNet affiliation at all but all 
seemed excited to see such an as- 
sembly of BBS people. 


The show started off with a key- 
note speech by Phil Becker of eSoft 
Inc. and the presentation of a 
round dozen BBS software au- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


thors. In itself, this comprised the 
largest group of BBS software au- 
thors ever assembled anywhere. 
Fred Clark, author of PCBoard, 
and his entire crew were there 
along with Jim Harrer and the 
Mustang software team that pro- 
duces Wildcat! BBS. eSoft and 
their entire TBBS staff were on 
hand, Scott Brinker represented 
Galacticomm (Major BBS), and 
Frank LaRosa, author of Search- 
light software, was there as well. 
Wynn Wagner III, author of Opus 
BBS; Adam Hudson, author of 
QuickBBS; Steve Gabrilowitz and 
Richard Creighton, current own- 
ers of QuickBBS; Scott Dudley of 
Maximus were also introduced. 
Andrew Milner, author of Remote 
Access traveled from Perth Aus- 
tralia to attend the show. 


Tom Jennings, who originally 


wrote Fido BBS and started Fido- 
Net, arrived with Tim Pozar, au- 


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Tom Jennings - Founder of the International FidoNet 


thor of UFGATE, a popular FidoN- 
et/UUCP gateway program, in 
Tom’s propane-powered 1963 
Rambler Classic. For many FidoN- 
et attendees, this was their first 
glimpse of the somewhat unusual 
man who started it all. 


Other notables in attendance in- 
cluded Chuck Forsberg of 
ZMODEM; Ray Gwinn, author of 
X00 FOSSIL program; Vince Per- 
riello of BinkleyTerm; Thom Hen- 
derson, author of ARC and SEAdog 
(now SEAmail); Jeff Rush, inven- 
tor of echomail; Randy Bush, who 
did much of the early documenta- 
tion of FidoNet technical stan- 
dards; George Peace, FidoNet Zone 
Coordinator for North America; 
Tony Davis, Zone 1 Echomail Coor- 
dinator; and many others were on 


hand. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Fred Clark (left) and David Terry of PCBoard at FidoCon91 


Beyond the dozens of notables, 
there were sysops - many celebri- 
ties in their own right. But at this 
convention, almost everyone there 
fell into that category in one sense 
or another. 


Guests began registering Thurs- 
day evening and by Friday morn- 
ing at 9:00 AM, the party was in 
full swing. Sessions were held 
three abreast all day through Sun- 
day afternoon. Mitch Kapor, 
founder of Lotus Development, 
and John Perry Barlow, of the band 
Grateful Dead were there repre- 
senting the Electronic Frontier 
Foundation along with Steve Jack- 
son of Steve Jackson Games. Jack- 
son had his BBS seized by the Se- 
cret Service a year ago and is cur- 
rently bringing suit, with the help 
of the EFF, against the agency. 
They participated in a number of 
sessions revolving around issues of 
ethics, privacy, the media, and 
legal issues to the enthusiastic ap- 
proval of the attendees. 


Almost all of the BBS software 
vendors held sessions demonstrat- 
ing the latest features of their new 
releases - and while there was 
some grumbling from the old guard 
FidoNet attendees about the com- 
mercialism, many who came in 


search of the "right" software were 
delighted to be able to look, see, 
feel, and touch virtually all the 
major packages up close and side- 
by-side at the convention - as well 
as talk to the developers directly. 


Several notable new products 
made their introduction at the 
show. SouthCoast engineering 
showed a small circuit card that 
monitors the number of rings com- 
ing into your modem. If your bul- 
letin board fails to answer the tele- 
phone within the set number of 
rings, the card assumes the com- 
puter is locked up or otherwise re- 
miss and does a hardware reset of 
the computer. 


eSoft showed off the new TBBS 
version 2.2 (still coming Real Soon 
Now) while Mustang showed off 
their new 3.0 version of Wildcat!. 
CompuCom modems converted 
more than a few with their new 
V.32bis model available at $299 for 
system operators. They demon- 
strated the modem by connecting 
it to a US Robotics HST Dual Stan- 
dard, still the darling of the BBS 
community, and paasing files back 
and forth at full V.32bis 14,400 bps 
speeds. Index Systems showed an 
8-line caller ID monitoring device 
for PCs and some fax switches 


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along with Hayes modems. CDB 
systems demonstrated a door pro- 
gram for PCBoard systems that 
processed credit card orders auto- 
matically. John Friel of the Forbin 
Project was on hand with 
QMODEM. In all, some 22 vendors 
displayed their wares in a spa- 
cious, well-appointed vendor area. 
PCBoard really showed out with 
an eye-popping 380-foot long profes- 
sional booth display. By all ac- 
counts the setup of the vendor area 
went more smoothly than many of 
the vendors could ever recall expe- 
riencing at a trade show, and much 
of this was credited to the work of 
Chris Anderson, one of the FidoC- 
on91 committee volunteers. 


One of the most popular sessions 
was about connecting your BBS to 
the Internet. Tim Pozar demon- 
strated UFGATE, a utility for 
gatewaying FidoNct messages to 
Unix UUCP hosts. Chris Ambler, a 
CalPoly graduate student wowed 
the group with a demonstration of 
FSUUCP - a suite of Unix mail 
utilities ported to the DOS envi- 
ronment. This effectively gives 
users UUCP/Internet mail capa- 
bilities on a laptop - a personal 
mailer for Internet. A $385 
shareware program, you will see 
more of this. 


In another session on the National 
Research Education Network 
(NREN), Randy Bush noted some 
concern over the eventual outcome 
of NREN and its effect on the Inter- 
net. He described a scenario of 
“dancing elephants" with Auto- 
mated Network Services (ANS) 
serving as a means for IBM and 
MCI to gain control of the Internet, 
market it to the Fortune 1000, and 
give the rest of the online world 
little notice. On the other side of 
the dance floor, CERFNet, PSI, 
and UUNET had joined forces to 
create CIX, and rumor has it that 
Sprint may be cozying up to them. 
Bush, long recognized as FidoNet’s 
ambassador to Internet, agreed to 
host three echomail conferences on 


Internet concerns including 
INTERNET.TECH, INTER- 
NET.NREN, and INTER- 


NET.FIDO - available on his Fido- 
Net system at 1:105/42. Bush’s 
Internet address is 
randy@psg.com. 


Dave Hughes of Old Colorado City 
Communications was at his finest 
- dramatically introducing a 
NAPLPS editor and terminal pro- 
gram. NAPLPS (North American 
Presentation Level Protocol Syn- 
tax) is a public domain ANSI stan- 
dard for graphics and is used by 
Prodigy, in slightly modified form, 
to deliver impressive graphics 
screens online. 


Apparently, Hughes had talked 
Microstar Software Ltd. president 
Peter Jordan into releasing their 
$1000 commercial graphics editor 
program as a $50 shareware pro- 
gram and made the announcement 
at the convention. Microstar actu- 
ally does much of the design work 
on Prodigy. Between the editor and 
the terminal program, Hughes in- 
troduction marked the first avail- 
ability of such tools to the BBS 
community and caused quite astir. 
Although Hughes has been cham- 
pioning the use of NAPLPS online 
for many years, until now, the tools 
just haven’t been widely available 
to the BBS community. With the 
availability of an editor and termi- 
nal program, we would look for an 
increased interest over the coming 
year. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Mitch ‘ae Fy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation 


Prodigy itself showed up in force - 
hosting a hospitality suite with 
beer, soda, and snacks and giving 
away Prodigy T-shirts. They were 


ae ~ isanware Authors - All ina Row 


15 


not the only commercial online ser- 
vice at the event. Steve Laliberte 
of BIX was all eyes at the event 
along with several representatives 
from CompuServe and ZiffNet (for- 
merly PC Magnet). They were also 
not the only hospitality suite in 
evidence with gatherings available 
in the Bit Bucket Software suite, 
eSoft Inc.’s suite, and our own 
Boardwatch rooms. 


Tll somewhat immodestly report 
that “the Jack and Phil Show’, a 
couple of relatively informal ses- 
sions on how to promote your BBS 
and make it profitable, held by my- 
self and TBBS author Phil Becker, 
was quite well received. The con- 
cept for this session arose out of 
several conversations we had dur- 
ing the previous year. At 
Boardwatch, we talk with a lot of 
BBS operators each day and we 
noticed some common techniques 
used by the financially successful 
ones. Phil Becker, as author of one 
of the leading multiline BBS soft- 
ware packages, also talks to a lot 
of BBS operators in the course of a 
normal day. In comparing notes, 
we found the same elements 


cropped up time after time and 
decided to do a little impromptu 
presentation. 


We weren't prepared for the re- 
sponse. The session room was lit- 
erally packed wall to wall, there 
were reportedly a hundred people 
in the hall outside, and we had a 
few peeking in through the win- 
dows. The enthusiasm of those at- 
tending the session was just 
slightly overwhelming and clearly 
this is a topic of intense interest to 
BBS operators. We'll try to repeat 
this in some kind of larger meeting 
facility next year with more ses- 
sions on this type of topic. 


The conference drew operators 
from around the world. At least 
five came from the Netherlands, a 
couple from Australia, several 
from Switzerland. Dmitry 
Klemenkov of Leningrad USSR, 
who had registered was unable to 
make it - this was the weekend of 
the coup. I found it somewhat in- 
teresting to meet Heikki Rensalow. 
Heikki was a farmer from Finland. 
He was quite interested in BBS 
and heard that the United States 
was where the action was so he 
came. Seemed to be having the 
time of his life. ve got a feeling life 
on a farm in Finland will never be 
the same. 


The banquet on Saturday night 
was a relative let-down. It was sold 
out weeks in advance and should 
have been the highlight of the con- 
vention. But most of the show or- 
ganizers who spoke wound up 
breaking down in tears at the mi- 
crophone and one left the banquet 
ill after a few minutes. The presen- 
tation of door prizes was particu- 
larly gruesome in the amateurish 
manner in which they were tossed 
into the audience. At one point, a 
sysop was awarded a copy of Wild- 
cat! 3.0 but the organizers with- 
drew the prize after they learned 
he either already ran the package 
or ran a different one (we never did 
learn which). This was somewhat 
puzzling in that everyone in the 
room either ran Wildcat! or ran 
another package - they all were 
sysops. But Mitch Kapor, John 
Barlow, and Tom Jennings were all 
enthusiastically received and the 
food was excellent. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Our participation in FidoCon91 
was largely an experiment to see if 
the BBS world was ready for an 
industry trade show. I suppose at 
this point the votes are in and as I 
count em, there were 408 wildly 
enthusiastic ayes and no dissent- 
ing votes at all. As a result, Phil 
Becker and I have formed a third 
company titled ONE, Inc. (Online 
Networking Expositions) to host 
an annual BBS show. We plan a bit 
larger and perhaps wider presen- 
tation next August for 1200-1500 
online enthusiasts. We're titling 
the show The Online Networking 
Exposition and BBS Conference 
(The ONE BBSCON) and it is 
tentatively scheduled for August 
13-16, 1991. We’re forming an Ex- 
ecutive Advisory Board of industry 
leaders that already includes Jim 
Harrer of Mustang Software, Fred 
Clark of Clark Development, and 
Dave Hughes of Old Colorado Clty 
Communications. Jim Warren, 
founder of the West Coast Com- 
puter Fair has already been a big 
help as an informal kibitzer/men- 
tor and the concept appears to be 
off to a good start. More on this in 
coming issues of Boardwatch. 


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John Perry Barlow - Electronic Frontier Foundation 


HARDWARE REBOOT 
DEVICE FOR BBS 


A common myth about running a 
bulletin board is that it will crash 
as soon as you walk out the door to 
take a weekend in the Mountains. 
Well, ok, so it’s not a myth. Many 
system operators tell us they train 
their kids to reset the computer by 
pressing the reset switch if they 
are going to be away for a day or 
two. We tried this with our three- 
year-old but found the solution less 
than ideal. She reset it about 60 
times one afternoon "just for fun" 
and it did cause some complaints. 


But BBSs, particularly complex 
BBSs using lots of external door 
programs, do seem to cough a bit 
occasionally. As long as someone is 
there to reset them, it’s not a big 
deal. But the result is that many 
BBS operators feel a little pinned 
to the house. 


Jim Brandon of South Coast Engi- 
neering Services thinks he may 
have an answer. After looking it 
over a bit, we think he may be 
right. They make a small circuit 
card they call a BBS Remote Reset 
Device. It can reset the host BBS 
computer automatically if the sys- 
tem crashes. 


Physically, the card is a small cir- 
cuit card with just a few compo- 
nents that will fit into any XT/AT 
8-bit slot. You disconnect the wire 
that runs from your front panel 
reset switch to a two-pin block on 
the motherboard and connect it to 
a similar block on the circuit card. 
Then you connect a similar wire 
from another block on the circuit 
card to the motherboard. In this 
way, the card is wired in series 
between the reset switch and the 
motherboard. The front panel 
reset switch still works. 


The card also features two RJ-11 
connectors. You simply route one to 
the telephone wall jack and the 
other to the first modem on the 
BBS. The card is wired in series 
between the modem and the tele- 
phone jack. 


In operation, the card is quite sim- 
ple. It’s not dependent on the CPU 
and it uses no memory. The only 
thing it gets from the computer slot 
is power. It simply counts the num- 
ber of rings coming in. If enough of 
them come, it resets the computer. 
The number of rings is selectable 
by a jumper on the card with a 
default ring count of 6. It can be set 
for 2-12 rings. So if the computer 
locks up for whatever reason, the 
next caller won't get a BBS but 
they will trigger a hardware reset 
of the system. Naturally, you want 
your system to include necessary 
AUTOEXEC.BAT commands to 
bring up the BBS on a reset. 


About the only drawback we could 
find to the BBS Remote Reset De- 
vice was its propensity for reboot- 
ing the system when you may not 
want it to. Many BBS go down 
intentionally for a few minutes to 
run an external event - processing 
mail for example, scanning new 
uploads for viruses, or running a 
defragmentation utility on the 
hard drive once a week. If a caller 
dials the BBS during this period, 
and the modem doesn’t answer, the 
card will rather blindly reboot the 
system during the external pro- 
cess. This is likely NOT what you 
want to have happen. 


The solution is quite simple. Sim- 
ply take the modem off-hook. 
Within a few minutes, the local 
telephone central office shuts 
down the line and no further in- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


coming rings will be detected. 

en you put the modem back 
on-hook, the line clears - normally 
within 15 seconds. Callers get a 
busy signal. The trick of course is 
to do this automatically from a 
batch file so when your external 
event takes down your BBS, it will 
take the modem off-hook and sub- 
sequently put the modem back in 
the on-hook condition before bring- 
ing the BBS up. The only drawback 
to THIS solution is that if the com- 
puter hangs during one of these 
external processes, the card 
doesn’t do any good. 


We found two shareware utilities 
that accomplish this reasonably 
admirably. Joseph Sheppard’s 
ATSEND11.ZIP program let's you 
send almost any Hayes AT com- 
mand set command to your modem 
from the DOS command line by 
simply entering ATSEND fol- 
lowed by the command. This also 


works from a batch file. 
ATSENDI11 is available from 
Sheppard’s THE LEDGE 


PCBOARD at (818)352-3620. 


A bit smaller and more specific 
utility is Jem  Miller’s 
MODEM.EXE Version 2.5, avail- 
able in the file MODEM25.ZIP. 
The command MODEM 1 OFF 
takes the modem on COM1 off- 
hook and MODEM 1 ON puts it 
back on-hook. MODEM25.ZIP is 
available from Jem Miller’s DIA 
COM system at (405)946-3675. 
Subscribers to the Boardwatch 
Online Information Service can of 
course download either utility 
from there as well at (303)973- 
4222 and both are widely available 
on BBSs nationwide. 


The card does feature the ability to 
ignore incoming rings during the 
boot cycle using a timeout feature 
between resets. This prevents sys- 
tems that take several minutes to 
boot up from constantly rebooting 
when calls are continuously com- 
ing in. The ring holdoff feature can 
be set for up to 3.5 minutes. 


The reset function provided by this 
card is handy, but it’s not some- 
thing you would want to pay a lot 
of money for. Fortunately, you don’t 
have to. The best, feature of South 
Coast's BBS Ring Count/Remote 
Reset Device is the price. A single 
unit is $59.95 and quantity dis- 


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counts begin at three units. They 
plan to ship an external model as 
well this month. More information 
is available from NETWORK 
XXIII BBS at (805)962-0122 and 
you can order online there. South 
Coast Engineering Services, 3463 
State Street, Suite 187, Santa Bar- 
bara, CA 93105; (805)681-7327 
voice; (805)964-6343 fax. 


NAPLPS - A GRAPHIC 
FUTURE FOR BBSs 


The bulletin board world has 
needed an avenue for expansion 
into easier to use, more graphical 
interfaces. A couple of pretty sig- 
nificant problems block this ave- 
nue. Like most things online, they 
revolve around speed and stan- 
dardization. 


Most BBS use either or both of 
ASCII (American Standard Code 
for Information Interchange) or 
ANSI (American National Stan- 
dards Institute) standards for 
transmitting information. Virtu- 
ally all terminal software supports 
both. ASCII is used by the plain 
text systems you see such as the 
WELL while ANSI, actually a 
shortened term referring to an 
ANSI standard for terminal com- 
munications, is used to produce the 
color graphics, blinking charac- 
ters, and animation you some- 
times see on local bulletin boards. 
To move beyond either one of these 
requires a real standard to emerge 
to handle more advanced graphics. 
Astandard that can be adopted by 
both terminal software developers 
and BBS software developers. 
Both ends of the communications 
link have to support the same com- 
munications technique to be work- 


able. 


The other issue is of course speed. 
ASCH is the fastest common com- 
munications medium online. 
ANSI, while more colorful, also in- 
curs the overhead of transmitting 
control characters to make all that 
stuff blink, squiggle, and change 
colors. To go beyond ANSI toward 
a more graphic interface, will un- 
doubtedly incur more overhead in 
the transmission. 


The speed problem pretty much 
precludes the use of widely used 
bit-mapped graphic formats such 


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as CompuServe’s GIF (Graphics 
Interchange Format) file format. 
No one wants to wait five or ten 
minutes while a menu paints on 
their screen - no matter how beau- 
tiful. The price for CCITT V.32 
9600 bps modems is dropping pre- 
cipitously and so we can begin to 
talk about graphic interfaces for 
BBS that are bearable - but bit- 
mapped images still won’t happen 
for some time. 


Dave Hughes, a somewhat senior 
retired army officer who operates 
Old Colorado City Communica- 
tions in Colorado Springs, has 
been singing the praises of a true 
public domain graphics standard 
termed NAPLPS for a number of 
years now. It hasn’t made a lot of 
sense in the past because the speed 
wasn't there, and the tools weren’t 
there, to effectively use it. Modem 
speeds are now to the point where 
NAPLPS graphics can be done 
with ease and in a fairly dramatic 
unveiling at FidoCon91 in Denver 
this past August, Hughes an- 
nounced the availability of acouple 
of key tools. 


NAPLPS stands for the North 
American Presentation Level Pro- 
tocol Syntax. This can be thought 
of as a superset of ANSI graphics 
although that is not precisely cor- 
rect. It is adopted by the American 
National Standards Institute and 
the Canadian Standards Associa- 
tion as part of the Presentation 
Level of the Open Systems Inter- 
connect (OSD suite. This is further 
considered the North American 
implementation of the Interna- 
tional Standards Organization 
ISO 2022-1986 standard for ex- 
tended character sets. What all 
this means is that NAPLPS has 
impressive credentials as an inter- 
national standard for online 
graphics. It is not proprietary and 
anyone can design software to this 
published standard specification. 


NAPLPS has a couple of real ad- 
vantages as a graphics standard. 
First, it generates relatively small 
files - a 20K NAPLPS file is consid- 
ered a whopper. Secondly, it is plat- 
form independent. A NAPLPS 
frame on a Macintosh, Atari, or 
IBM looks pretty much the same. 
Further, NAPLPS is extensible in 
a couple of ways. It uses Dynamic 
Redefinable Character Set 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


(DRCS) tables to define up to 96 
special characters any way you 
want. In this way, you can design 
a DRCS table to support chess 
characters, for example, or mathe- 
matical symbols including the in- 
tegration symbol used in calculus 
etc. In fact, Hughes is repeating 
last year’s online course in chaos 
mathematics, taught by MIT and 
ported to eight local high schools in 
Colorado and Montana. The pro- 
gram was successful last year. This 
year they are going to incorporate 
NAPLPS to do a more graphic run 
at the whole concept using DRCS 
tables for math functions. The nice 
thing about DRCS tables - you 
don’t have to have them to use 
them. They are typically 4K in size 
and you can easily transmit them 
as part of the first frame and the 
terminal program receiving it im- 
mediately has use of the new char- 
acter set. 


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Dave Hughes Discussing NAPLPS - With Anyone Who'll Listen 


>. 


Another extensible element of 
NAPLPS involves font sets. The 
ISO standards committee has al- 
ready defined entire font sets for 
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and a 
dozen other languages. NAPLPS 
can accommodate these font sets 
almost effortlessly. In this way, 
basic NAPLPS can be easily ex- 
tended to handle 4000 Chinese 
characters. 


Finally, NAPLPS has a built in 
ability to pass other data in a 
transparent mode. Conceivably, 
you could have a small GIF bit- 
mapped image in center screen, 
with much less data intensive 
NAPLPS graphics surrounding it. 


NAPLPS has received a big boost 
in credibility by the success of 
Prodigy’s online service. Prodigy 
has been pretty successful in lur- 
ing an impressive number (1 mil- 
lion by some estimates) of people 
online that might otherwise never 


have made the trip. NAPLPS had 
been used by other videotext ser- 
vices including Knight-Ridder’s 
defunct Viewtron, Canada’s ALEX, 
and NYNEX’s also defunct IN- 
FOLOOK. But Prodigy has been 
the success story and their graphic 
interface has become the mark to 
emulate in online graphics. At the 
2400 bps speed offered by Prodigy, 
it is barely endurable. At the 9600 
bps speeds we will see become com- 
mon over the next two years, it 
works just fine. 


The problem with using NAPLPS 
on BBS is that no terminal pro- 
grams, other than the proprietary 
Prodigy package, have really been 
available for it and none at low 
cost. Further, to generate NAPLPS 
images requires some sort of draw- 
ing program - and there haven't 
been any inexpensively available 
to generate NAPLPS files. But 
Hughes has been proselytizing on 
the topic pretty persistently and 
has made his best headway among 
some innovative software develop- 
ers in Canada - most notably 
Microstar. 


The next time you log onto Prodigy, 
look at the bottom of the welcome 
screen. Microstar is listed as the 
company making the Prodigy 
graphics possible. Prodigy has 
some proprietary magic in it, but 
broadly speaking, the Prodigy in- 
terface is done in NAPLPS. 


Microstar makes an editor titled 
MGE - Microstar Graphics Editor. 
Hughes has preached the gospel of 
BBS/cottage online services to 
Peter Jordan, president of 
Microstar. Apparently, his vision 
caught because in August, Jordan 
agreed to release their $1000 com- 
mercial MGE program as a $50 
shareware release. He also agreed 
to release their Personality Plus 
TI NAPLPS terminal program at 
$25. Essentially, this gives the onl- 
ine community two shareware 
tools to make a start at NAPLPS. 


In September, Hughes traveled to 
Ottawa to help Microstar set up a 
FidoNet compatible BBS using Re- 
mote Access BBS software and the 
BinkleyTerm mail program. The 
system, titled Microstar Soft- 
ware Support, operates at 
(613)727-5752. The two programs 
are available for download there. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


The graphics editor is in the file 
SHARENAP.EXE while the Per- 
sonality Plus III terminal program 
is PP3PAC.EXE - both are self 
extracting compressed file sets. 
For Internet aficionados, these 
programs are also available by 
FTP. FTP CSN.ORG. Change di- 
rectory to OldColoCity. 


Microstar’s graphics editor and 
terminal program are interesting, 
but not overpowering in elegance. 
They are actually demonstrations 
of Microstar’s main line of prod- 
ucts, the decoders and display 
drivers used to implement 
NAPLPS. The company sells a 
$1000 MVDI-T Developers 
Toolkit that allows anyone to in- 
corporate NAPLPS capability in 
their C language program with as 
little as 9 lines of code. They do 
want royalties on the resulting 
product but the royalty schedule is 
actually pretty modest. 


So through Hughes’ efforts, the 
BBS community now has a couple 
of readily available shareware pro- 
grams to start to work on NAPLPS 
as a graphics solution, and a pretty 
quick path to incorporating 
NAPLPS with more mainline ter- 
minal programs in the future. 


Currently, there is only one true 

S we know of that uses 
NAPLPS today and that is not ac- 
tually for the BBS itself. Russell 
Country BBS of Hobson Montana 
runs on Remote Access BBS soft- 
ware at (406)423-5433. The inter- 
face is quite normal but the BBS is 
devoted to the display of native 
American Indian folk art online. 
All the art is in NAPLPS frame 
format and so you can dial this 
system and view NAPLPS frames 
online. 


Dave Hughes, Old Colorado City 
Communications, 6 1/2 N 24th St., 
Colorado Springs, CO 80904; 
(719)636-2040 voice; (719)632- 
2658 BBS; FidoNet 1:128/67. 
Internet: 
dave%oldcoloG@csn.org 


Microstar Software Ltd., 100-34 
Colonnade Road North, Nepean, 
Ontario Canada K2E-7J6; 
(800)267-9975 voice; (613)727- 
5752 BBS. 


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CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 
BOARDS FOR PIRACY 


Novell Inc. has filed suit against 
two California bulletin boards for 
software piracy. Computer equip- 
ment, software, backups, and busi- 
ness records were seized from THE 
RED OCTOBER BBS (415)935- 
4105, operated by Steven 
Marenkov, Custom Software Ser- 
vices, Inc. of Walnut Creek Califor- 
nia on August 7th as well as THE 
WISH LIST BBS, operated by 
Doug Luce, D&D Computing Inc. 
of Redondo Beach California on 
July 31. Neither system is now in 
operation. 


Novell filed copyright and trade- 
mark infringement lawsuits in a 
federal district court and obtained 
the seizure orders. In their Sep- 
tember 4 announcement, Novell 
claims both systems sold and dis- 
tributed pirated NetWare operat- 
ing system software as well as hun- 
dreds of other commercial titles by 
other vendors. 


HAYES ANNOUNCES NEW 
OPTIMA S6MODEM 


Hayes Microcomputer Products 
announced on September 9th a 
new addition to the Smart Modem 
family and it is quite interesting. 
The new OPTIMA 96's most strik- 
ing feature is the lack of a sug- 
gested retail or list price. Designed 
to be a low cost alternative to the 
Hayes Ultra 96, the company is 
pricing it very aggressively into 
the distribution channel, appar- 
ently in a move to counter the av- 
alanche of very low cost V.32 mo- 
dems currently flooding the mar- 
ket. The company expects it could 
eventually retail for as little as 
$440. We found COMP*USA al- 
ready advertising the modem at 
$529 three days after the an- 
nouncement. 


A number of modem companies 
offer a "low end" model with lim- 
ited features, a cheaper enclosure, 
etc. That role is actually filled by 
Hayes acquisition of the Practical 
Peripherals line. The attractive el- 
ement of the Hayes OPTIMA is 
that for the BBS world, it is for all 
practical purposes a top-end Hayes 


Ultra 9600 without the baggage. 
The modem looks like an Ultra and 
acts like an Ultra when dialing 
BBSs or general online services. It 
still offers 9600 bps V.32 connec- 
tions, V.42/42bis error correction 
and compression, and MNP 5 with 
the same theoretical top data 
transfer speed of 38,400 bits per 
second (bps). 


The features sacrificed with the 
OPTIMA model include support 
for the earlier V-Series 9600 pro- 
prietary modems, which never 
made much impact on the BBS 
world, the dial X.25 feature, 
MI/MIC &V.25bis Mini/Main- 
frame computer support, and net- 
work support. Most of these fea- 
tures were widely unknown and 
loudly unused in the BBS world - 
though some were quite popular in 
corporate installations. The dial 
X.25 (X.32) feature was interesting 
in that using Hayes Smartcom II 
software, you could hold up to four 
simultaneous online sessions on 
X.25 networks such as Sprintnet, 
Tymnet, CompuServe Network, 
etc. But without the special soft- 
ware, it added little to the dialing 
day of most BBS callers. 


The result is a very handsome, 
quality modem at a street price for 
everyone that will undoubtedly fall 
below $500 within a few months. 
According to Hayes president Den- 
nis C. Hayes, "Our pricing of OP- 
TIMA 96 to distribution assures a 
competitive low price to computer 
users. By not establishing the esti- 
mated retail price, we have taken 
away one of our competitor's best 
weapons. We know that by doing 
this, our position as the main- 
stream PC modem market leader 
will be greatly enhanced." 


The modem comes bundled with 
Smartcom EZ, a simple-to-use 
communications software pro- 
gram that can be upgraded to 
Smartcom Exec for an additional 
$35. It also includes a two year 
warranty, and coupons for MCI, 
AT&T, CompuServe, and GEnie. 
There are no current plans for a 
sysop discount program on the OP- 
TIMA 96. Hayes does operate an 
excellent toll-free product support 
bulletin board at 800-874-2937. 
Hayes Microcomputer Products, 
Inc., PO Box 105208, Atlanta, GA 
30348; (404)840-9200 voice; 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Hayes Microcomputer Products’ New OPTIMA 96 Modem 


CARDINAL INTRODUCES 
BBS DISCOUNT PRICE ON 
9600 BPS MODEMS. 


Cardinal Technologies Inc. has an- 
nounced a discount on their 9600 
bps modems for BBS operators. 
The 9600V42 model is an external 
CCITT V.32 9600 bps modem with 
V.42 error correction and V.42 bis 
compression along with Microcom 
Networking Protocol level 5 
(MNP5). The list price is $699 and 
BBS operators can obtain this 
modem for $269 each. The Model 
9650V32 is an internal model with 
V.32, and MNP 5 but without V.42 
with a list price of $599 and a BBS 
discount price of $247 each. Cardi- 
nal Technologies, Inc., 1827 Free- 
dom Road, Lancaster, PA 17601; 
(800)-233-0187 voice; (717)298- 
3055 fax. 


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U.S. ROBOTICS, INC. GOES 
PUBLIC WITH INITIAL 
STOCK OFFERING 


U.S. Robotics, Inc. announced a 
public stock offering August 30. 
With 9,337,532 shares of stock, the 
company is offering 2,200,000 
shares to the public and existing 
shareowners are offering an addi- 
tional 1,400,000 shares. The ini- 
tial public offering price is ex- 
pected to be between $11.00 and 
$13.00 per share. Hambrecht & 
Quist Incorporated, Donaldson, 
Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Cor- 
poration, and Volpy, Welty & Com- 
pany will manage the offering. A 
copy of the preliminary prospectus 
can be obtained from Hambrecht 
& Quist Inc., One Bush Street, 
15th Floor, San Francisco, CA 
94104, 


U.S. Robotics has been very suc- 
cessful in the BBS market with 
their Courier line of modems. The 
company recently acquired 
Touchbase Systems picking up the 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


SYSOP MODEM DISCOUNT PROGRAMS 
V.32 AND V.32bis MODEMS 


a EID 
Vendor Support BBS_ Sysop Price __List 


ATI V.32 

Cardinal 9600V42 
CompuCom V.32bis 
CompuCom V.32 

GVC SM-96 V.32 

Hayes Ultra 144 V.32bis 
Hayes Ultra 96 V.32 

Intel 9600EX V.32 
Multi-Tech MT932EAB V.32 
Practical Peripherals PM9600SA 
Twincom 9600 V.42 

U.S. Robotics DS V.32bis 
Ven-Tel V.32 


(416)756-4591 
none 

(408)738-4990 
(408)738-4990 
(201)579-2380 
(800)874-2937 
(800)874-2937 
(503)645-6275 
(612)785-9875 
(818)706-2467 
none 

(708)982-5092 
(408)922-0988 


$350 
$269 
$329 
$229 
$379 
$599 
$499 
$399 
$449.50 
$339 
$279 
$499 
$499 


$699 
$699 
$539 
$339 
$695 
$1199 
$999 
$799 
$899 
$699 
$299 
$1295 
$899 


* All modems quoted in external models where available 


Worldport line of portable pocket 
modems. U.S. Robotics, Inc., 8100 
North McCormick Blvd., Skokie, 
IL 60076; (708)982-5010. 


SYSOP HYSTERIA OVER 
NEW YORK SALES TAX 


Like many states, New York has 
suffered in the budget area over 
the past few years. Basically, gov- 
ernment at all levels has developed 
an insatiable appetite for money - 
probably beyond the usual insatia- 
ble appetite for money govern- 
ments have historically had. And 
also like most states, New York’s 
solution is to find more money - 
through taxes. 


A concerted effort was made in 
their last budgetary session to 
"close loopholes", a bureaucratic 
euphemism for the process of iden- 
tifying those not giving “enough” 
and redesigning the laws to try to 
get more of it from them. For ex- 
ample, as of September 1, if you file 
an auto insurance claim and re- 
ceive some money to pay for dam- 
ages to your car, the insurance 
company is now supposed to with- 
hold sales taxes on it. 


One of the targets of their latest 
foray is software. Software is a 
funny thing. It’s a bit like a service, 
and a bit like a book, and there are 
some fine lines drawn regarding 
just exactly what it is. The consen- 


sus that has emerged over the 
years is that software done as a 
custom process is a service - not 
subject to sales taxes, whereas 
software that is "pre-written," put 
in a box, and sold off the shelf is a 
product subject to sales tax. Appar- 
ently, a number of vendors, includ- 
ing Radio Shack, had been taking 
off-the-shelf software, installing it 
on hardware and selling the pack- 
age and claiming the software was 
then a "custom" installation and 
the software not subject to sales 
taxes. Since they did pay sales 
taxes on the hardware/software 
package sold, we don’t find this 
particularly evasive, but New York 
thought they were really taking a 
beating on this. 


So as part of the state budget law 
passed in July 1991, they inserted 
one of the most gruesomely all en- 
compassing pieces of verbiage con- 
ceivable. It basically says if you are 
selling software, thinking of sell- 
ing software, transferring soft- 
ware of any kind, thinking of trans- 
ferring software of any kind, under 
any conceivable situation, includ- 
ing moving a diskette from your 
coat pocket to your shirt pocket, 
you owe the state of New York sales 
tax on the full retail price of the 
software, the diskette, both pock- 
ets, and any clothes the pockets 
may be attached to. 


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A number of bulletin boards oper- 
ating in New York are licensed as 
businesses and in fact do pay sales 
taxes on the paid subscriptions to 
their BBS. As part of the process of 
implementing the new rules on 
pre-written software, the state 
sent out a general New York Tax 
and Finance Notice N91-34 to 
all businesses classified as a"com- 
puter business”. As a result, sev- 
eral bulletin boards received these 
general notices and reading the in- 
credibly loose verbiage of the bill, 
understandably assumed the 
worst. As written, the bill implies 
that BBS operators must pay sales 
taxes on any shareware or public 
domain software downloaded from 
a BBS - as high as 8.25%. 


A few bulletin board operators is- 
sued acall to arms and the riot was 
on. Early speculation concluded 
that the state wanted to collect 
sales taxes on the declared regis- 
tration fee on each shareware pro- 
gram callers downloaded from 
their systems. Worse, the reason- 
ing went, all hobby systems would 
now have to get a business license 
and the telephone company would 
then charge them commercial 
rates on their telephone lines. Ac- 
cording to Tony Mack, an Albany 
BBS operator, dozens of BBS were 
actually closing down their file sec- 
tions. The hysteria grew by the 
minute. Some said the tax author- 
ity was logging onto bulletin 
boards within 48 hours of the Sep- 
tember 1 effective date of the law. 
Marty Winter, operator of a part- 
time BBS posted numerous mes- 
sages in the IBMBBS forum on 
CompuServe. The topic also re- 
ceived a lot of attention in the EFF 
forum on the WELL. 


But according to spokesmen from 
the New York State Department of 
Taxation, while bulletin boards are 
liable for sales taxes on actual sub- 
scriptions to the boards, no tax is 
due or contemplated on the trans- 
fer of shareware or public domain 
software by modem. And they were 
considerably confused by the 60 
calls they received from panicked 
sysops on a single day in Septem- 
ber. 


So, it would appear the great New 
York Sales Tax fiasco was a dud. 
But it does point up several issues 
regarding the interaction between 


a high tech world on one hand, and 
a decidedly low-tech legislative 
structure on the other. Repeatedly, 
we see well intended laws drafted 
that appear to have a dramatic and 
sinister effect on our online envi- 
ronment. When the original fram- 
ers of the law are confronted, it 
becomes obvious they didn’t even 
contemplate the existence of such 
a thing, much less the impact such 
a law might have. The problem of 
course is that once a law is passed, 
whatever the intent and current 
enforcement policy, the words lay 
there like a bomb waiting to go off 
in the future. The wording on the 
New York law should not only be 
revised to deal with this situation, 
but we find it unconscionably 
vague in any event. 


The other surprising thing we 
found about New York had little to 
do with software. Their tax law 
specifically levies a tax on printed 
matter and computer services but 
exempts all newspapers and peri- 
odical magazines from sales tax. 
The common theory here is that if 
you tax public communication, you 
are in effect taxing and regulating 
free speech, prohibited under the 
constitution. If newspapers and 
magazines are so protected and ex- 
empted, why then are BBS paying 
sales tax on THEIR subscriptions. 
We won't be so tedious as to once 
again make the case that a BBS is 
a publication - it’s been done to 
death. But, once again we must 
raise the question, why aren’t the 
same constitutional protections so 
clearly available for print media 
extended to the electronic arena? 
As we move into an ever more elec- 
tronic future, must we slowly and 
subtly forfeit our freedoms in a 
devils trade for technology? 


System Operators in New York 
who desire authoritive rulings on 
specific tax matters can obtain 
them by contacting New York State 
Taxpayers Service Bureau, Corre- 
spondence Section, Building 8, 
Room 902, State Campus, Albany, 
NY 12227; (618)438-8581. 


TELECOM DEVICE FOR 
DEAF/MODEM PACKAGE 


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unusual life. Born deaf in Sri 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


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Lanka in 1953, his family moved to 
England in 1964. He was enrolled 
in the Maude Maxfield School for 
the Deaf in Sheffield England dur- 
ing a fairly unenlightened period. 
After going through a series of 
schools for the deaf, he was admit- 
ted, with some reluctance, by Shef- 
field University in 1976 as the first 
deaf student. He completed a 
Bachelors degree and helped de- 
velop a Teletext Decoder for the 
Deaf now used by British Televi- 
sion. 


He came to the U.S. on the Winston 
Churchill scholarship and received 
a Masters Degree in Electronic En- 
gineering from the Rochester In- 
stitute. Subsequently, he wrote an 
electronic mail system used by 


NASA. 
One of his current projects involves 


a dissatisfaction with TDD devices 
for the deaf. He’s designed a com- 


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bination 300 baud modem/TDD de- 
vice with software on an internal 
circuit card - reportedly much eas- 
ier for non-technoid deaf users to 
install and use with a PC. In addi- 
tion to outgoing calls, it can also be 
used as an answering device, and 
conceivably as a means to offer a 
TDD line on a BBS. The MIC300i 
is priced at $349. Microflip, Inc. 
11211 Petsworth Lane, Glenn 
Dale, MD 20769; (801)262-6020 
voice; (301)262-4978 fax; 
(301)588-0965 TDD. 


NEW SEAMAIL - AN 
AUTOMATED DIALUP MAIL 
SYSTEM 


by Chris Anderson 

In the world of automated elec- 
tronic mail transfers between com- 
puters, System Enhancement As- 


sociates (SEA [tm]) has just made 
life a little easier for its PC 
customers. 


Although originally introduced by 
the FidoNet computer hobbyist 
network, FidoNet-based electronic 
‘mail technology has been increas- 
ingly popular for handling corpo- 
rate electronic mail as well. Such 
software offers unattended routing 
of messages to other locations, 
store and forward ability, and com- 
pletely automated transmission of 
mail and files between employees 
in one or many geographically sep- 
arated sites using the standard 
dialup telephone system. Since the 
advent of laptop computers, this 
has proven an especially useful 
technology to employees traveling 
with modems. An entire electronic 
mail system can be built from these 
relatively inexpensive software 
"mailer" packages. 


Both the hobby and corporate user 
has much to look forward to in 
SEA’s latest offering, SEAmail 
1.00. There are a great many fea- 
tures not offered in SEA’s earlier 
product, SEAdog. Of special im- 
portance to the hobby segment of 
the market, SEAmail offers 
WaZOO (Warp Zillion OPUS-to- 
OPUS) session support using the 
ZMODEM protocol in addition to 
its own SEAlink protocol. WaZOO 
originated with the OPUS CBCS 
bulletin board software authored 
by Wynn Wagner III and has be- 
come very commonly used in Fido- 
Net. This allows SEAmail to speak 
intelligently to many non-SEA 
mailers that are unable to take full 
advantage of SEA’s own protocol. 


These "protocol session handlers" 
are now modules external to the 
core of the SEAmail software, 
making it possible to simply "plug 
in" any new protocols that the in- 
dustry may develop in the future. 


In addition to WaZOO, SEAmail 
offers FAX and printer session 
handlers. Instead of dialing and 
linking with another mailer, this 
allows SEAmail to route or for- 
ward mail to remote FAX ma- 
chines and even local printers. The 
FAX option is very convenient, as 
text based mail from any source 
can be directed to companies and 
individuals that have only FAX ca- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


pabilities. (Note that this requires 
a FAX card or FAX modem be made 
available for SEAmail’s use). 


The Printer session option allows 
messages to be automatically cop- 
ied to a printer, or sent to a printer 
for reading in lieu of supplying 
each user access to the mailer sys- 
tem itself to read their mail. An- 
other important feature for large 
users is SEAmail’s ability to func- 
tion on a LAN system. In this way, 
mail can be routed to the printer 
down the hall. 


Perhaps one of the most dramatic 
changes from SEA’s previous phi- 
losophy is the full support of what 
is called "five dimensional ad- 
dressing" for itself and for other 
systems. Whereas it previously 
only properly supported 
zone:net/node style addressing, 
it now fully supports 
zone:net/node.point@domain 
addressing that has become s0 pop- 
ular in the hobbyist market in 
order to address mail between sep- 
arate mail networks. To accom- 
plish this, all system addresses are 
boiled down to phone numbers. 
This allows some new features to 
deal with the problem of systems 
that participate in multiple net- 
works and so use more than one 
address. SEAmail now automati- 
cally recognizes that mail destined 
to a common phone number can be 
sent in one call, regardless of the 
fact that multiple addresses exist 
for the outbound mail. 


SEAmail’s user interface is a major 
step forward from their previous 
product. Pop-up menus replace the 
old text file method of system con- 
figuration, and the mail read/reply 
software also provides a much 
more user friendly environment. 
An impressive session and call sta- 
tus display is present at any time 
the mailer itself is running. Statis- 
tics are kept and displayed on a 
wide variety of system functions. 


Caller I.D. is supported, and will 
use phone number matching and 
logging as an additional level to an 
already security minded package. 
This will eventually make call- 
back modem systems and call-back 
verification obsolete in many ap- 
plications where Caller I.D. is 
available from your local phone 
company. 


For those that can’t do without 
EVERY last whistle and bell, SEA- 
mail even offers an audio user in- 
terface as well. Sound files identi- 
cal to those used on Macintosh sys- 
tems can be stored and triggered 
by various mailer events. If you'd 
like your system to scream (liter- 
ally) when a mail transfer fails, or 
hear the sound of the Enterprise’s 
transporter system come alive 
when a file is left on your system 
by another, SEAmail is only too 
willing to oblige. If you are familiar 
with the lawsuit between SEA and 
Phil Katz of PKZIP archiver fame, 
you'll be amused to discover that 
the system configuration is ini- 
tially set to scream whenever a 
ZIP file is received, although this 
can be modified to suit your taste 
in archiving software! 


Shortcomings are few, but a few of 
them are worthy of mention. 


First, as with any new package, a 
few bugs remain to be resolved. 
Although the routing of locally 
generated messages (using the 
VIA command) works as expected, 
the ability to forward messages 
from other systems to other desti- 
nations (the FORWARD com- 
mand) seems to work consistently 
only in a non-selective mode where 
it will from everyone to everyone. 
This is not often desirable. 


Missing, but promised in a future 
release, is the ability to receive 
files into a separate "no password" 
directory from a system that does 
not offer a password. Although un- 
important to closed corporate sys- 
tems that always require pass- 
words, this is a most useful secu- 
rity feature in the hobbyist’s use of 
the package where the system is 
essentially open to the public. This 
feature was part of the previous 
package, SEAdog, and we are as- 
sured by the author that it will be 
returned. 


The FidoNet EchoMail technology 
method of conferencing between 
users of different systems is not as 
well supported as the GroupMail 
method. The built-in 
packer/archiver is slow compared 
to the older ARCMAIL utilities 
provided by SEA, and cannot eas- 
ily be fooled into using alternative 
archiving software apart from 


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ARC.EXE. EchoMail files once 
again require the "file attach mes- 
sage’ be created in order to move 
EchoMail files to other systems. 
The older but quicker ARCMAIL 
utilities are unable to generate the 
! character that must begin any file 
name in the file attach message in 
order to have it deleted after suc- 
cessful transmission. This re- 
quires either use of the built-in 
archiving method, or some fancy 
batch file footwork using the new 
SEND program that accompanies 
SEAmail since it is capable of add- 
ing the! as required. It ain’t pretty, 
but it can be used as an effective 
work-around. 


GET and SEND remain one of the 
most useful features of SEAmail 
for companies who don’t want to 
offer a graduate course on mail 
system use to employees. In addi- 
tion to the e-mail functions that 
are actually quite easy to use, GET 
and SEND allow non-technical 
users to send or fetch any file from 
the home system with little diffi- 
culty. From the standard DOS 
command line, SEND RE- 
PORT.TXT TO OFFICE NOW is 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


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about all they need to know to send 
the REPORT.TXT file to the sys- 
tem titled OFFICE in their phone 
directory. Likewise, GET 
DAILY.TXT FROM OFFICE 
NOW would cause the system to 
dial out, retrieve the DAILY.TXT 
file from the office system, and dis- 
connect. 


In all, the package is a vast im- 
provement in user interface and 
features. As soon as SEA has re- 
leased corrections for a few of the 
minor bugs and deficiencies, it will 
be somewhat easier to tame. SEA- 
mail retails for $195. System En- 
hancement Associates, 21 New 
Street, Wayne, NJ 07470; 
(201)478-5153 voice; (201)473- 
1991 BBS. 


MUSTANG SOFTWARE 
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FOR WILDCAT! 


Mustang Software, riding high on 
the success of their new 3.0 release 
of WILDCAT! BBS (2500 copies 
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acquisitions program - buying up 
some VERY interesting software 
companies. While several deals are 
pending, we can talk about their 
purchase of Technique Computer 
Systems. Recall from last issue our 
enthusiasm for the WildPro Series 
3 sysop utilities written by Greg 
Hewsgill. The product is turning 
into a BIG winner for Mustang. As 
a result, they've bought out Tech- 
nique Computer Systems to get 
Greg Hewgill and Scott Brynen as 
part of their R&D team. The acqui- 
sition also brings in house three 
other titles including Silly Little 
Mail Reader (SLMR), Tomcat, and 
T-Net. 


T-Net allows Wildcat BBS opera- 
tors to form networks to share or 
echo message areas easily. Tomcat 
is a door program that allows cal- 
lers to download a mail packet con- 
taining mail in selected confer- 
ences for reading/reply off line. 
And SLMR is an off line mail 
reader. 


Offline mail has become increas- 
ingly popular. Rather than read 
and reply to each of twenty or more 


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topical conference areas on a BBS, 
callers can select their "default" 
areas of interest and simply dial in 
and download a file containing 
ALL the new messages from each 
of those areas. Using offline mail 
readers such as QMail Deluxe, EZ- 
Reader, Silver Express, XRS, or 
Silly Little Mail Reader, callers 
can read and reply to mail confer- 
ences at their leisure offline with- 
out worrying about long distance 
charges or how much time they 
have left on the system. When they 
call next, they upload the resulting 
"reply" packet, and download any 
new messages. 


In this way, BBS callers actually 
do most of their BBSing offline. 
Such programs have also become 
popular in the commercial online 
world with TAPCIS and AUTOSIG 
for CompuServe, ALLADIN for 
GEnie, and SWEEPER for the 
WELL. 


The one drawback to most of the 
offline readers for bulletin boards 
has been installation. To get most 
of these readers up and running 


has NOT been trivial and for many 
callers - just not feasible. One of 
the most appealing things about 
Silly Little Mail Reader is its sim- 
plicity. Installation typically takes 
about three minutes and it would 
take a concerted effort by a tal- 
ented mind to hose it up. While it 
lacks some of the more elegant 
flourishes of the new QMail Deluxe 
and EZ-Reader 2.0, it is more than 
capable for most applications and 
the easy installation and operation 
of this package may be more im- 
portant for most callers. 


With Hewgill and Brynen online 
with Mustang Software, we expect 
to see some impressive develop- 
ments in the connection between 
BBS and caller as well as BBS to 
BBS for Wildcat! operators. Mus- 
tang Software Inc., PO Box 2364, 
Bakersfield, CA 93303; (805)393- 
0228 voice; (805)395-0713 fax; 
(805)395-0650 BBS. 


27 


DVORAK’S GUIDE TO PC 
CONNECTIVITY 


John C. Dvorak developed a theme 
a number of years ago that elec- 
tronic bulletin boards and modem 
communications were the unher- 
alded “fourth” major application 
for personal computers after word 
processing, database applications, 
and spreadsheets. We tend to 
share his view and his Dvorak’s 
Guide to PC Telecommunications 
book under the Osborne McG- 
raw/Hill emblem provided a very 
timely shot in the arm for the BBS 
world. 


We recently had a chance to take a 
peek at another seminal work 
under the Dvorak auspices in 
Dvorak’s Guide to PC Connectiv- 
ity. We’ve seen a couple of "connec- 
tivity" releases this past year and 
most of them were (yawn) trivia 
and tips about living with local 
area networks. LANs are not like 
paint programs, comm programs, 
etc. You don’t play much with 
LANs. You’re completely im- 


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mersed in heaven or hell until the 
thing works and afterwards, it 
doesn’t do anything jazzy BUT 
work - or fail - on a regular basis. 
They do magnify the usability of 
PCs in a work group situation, but 
there is no screen pop and sizzle to 
them. You simply have more hard 
drives than you did previously and 
can "communicate" in a seriously 
unglamorous fashion with people 
in the same building. 


Dvorak’s new book, actually writ- 
ten by Nick Anis Jr. and Werner 
Fibel, defines the term "connectiv- 
ity" in an entirely different, and we 
think more usable and interesting 
fashion. It grapples with the daily 
hurdles we all face in sharing in- 
formation across a much wider 
world than a Local Area Network. 
It does give LANs some attention, 
and modem communications 
frankly short shrift. But it handles 
a lot of the nagging details of file 
formats and the endlegs little hells 
we all go through in converting one 
word processor format to another, 
one graphics format to another and 
in general "connecting" the output 
of any one program to another. 


The $49.95 book includes three 
diskettes of programs that we 
found comprise a delightfully 
eclectic collection of utilities, small 
and some NOT so small, to make 
life easier in PC-ville. Notables? A 
copy of HiJaak, undoubtedly the 
most popular graphics file manip- 
ulator/conversion program on the 
market and one we had paid $104 
at discount to pick up ourselves not 
a week before. Another example: 
WORD FOR WORD, a superb util- 
ity to convert various word proces- 
sor file formats from one to another 
with ease. We use it regularly here 
at Boardwatch but the version in- 
cluded with this book is clearly a 
later release with a fantastic drop- 
down window, mouse-driven inter- 
face and virtually every word pro- 
cessor format on the planet. 


For those who insist LANs are the 
way to connect, this book does not 
fall short. INCLUDED in the disk- 
ettes are LANtastic’s Z Lan - a 
software program that let’s you 
build a workable LAN via serial 
port, parallel port, or virtually any 
LAN card. It also includes LAN- 
tastic Z Net Manager, a very useful 
utility for dealing with a LAN. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Between these three name prod- 
ucts, the Dvorak book provides 
nearly $400 worth of software in 
the very latest versions and would 
gain a recommendation on that 
alone. But the truth is, as usual we 
were wowed by something else en- 
tirely. The programs also include a 
wealth of tiny, obscure, and in 
some cases whimsical utilities, all 
married together with the best 
menu program we've ever seen. 
The heart of the awe is a program 
written by Keith Graham they call 
GMENU. GMENU is all assembly 
language and lets you create 
menus on your computer for appli- 
cation programs quite easily. It’s 
barely 13K in size and like most 
assembly language programs, 
makes the screen pop and sizzle 
when you snap a key. Ail the in- 
cluded programs come on the 
menu, and all the documentation 
is accessed via another menu that 
uses a version of Vern Buerg’s ex- 
cellent LIST utility to let you 
browse the docs with ease. 


Some of the lesser utilities are the 
most delightful. A screen blanker 
that rotates a beam around your 
screen erasing what’s on it and 
paints a scene remarkably like the 
colored stars passing the view 
screen on the starship Enterprise. 
Even better, when you press a key 
to recall the work screen, it slides 
in from both sides in an impressive 
graphic display. An entirely whim- 
sical LAVALAMP program per- 
forms an on-screen kaleidoscope - 
but like nothing you’ve ever seen. 
It shows off VGA graphics capabil- 
ity colorfully and dramatically. A 
"boss" key allows you to popup the 
most realistic looking fake 
spreadsheet screen we've seen 
when the boss pops into your cubi- 
cle - you can even enter data in the 
cells. A version of CSHOW - a 
viewer for Graphics Interchange 
Format (CompuServe’s .GIF for- 
mat) allows you to display GIF im- 
ages. 


The author of most of this light 
weight magic is Keith P. Graham. 
Keith writes small, tight utilities 
in assembly language and they are 
impressive. Among his other titles 
are OPTIK, a graphics package, 
and TXT2COM, a utility to turn 
any text file into a self displaying 
.COM program. Graham is also the 


29 


host of Inside Your Personal 
Computer, a technology show on 
Continental Cablevision. He actu- 
ally works for Lockheed Corpora- 
tion and has never received his due 
as a shareware author although 
he’s written well over a hundred 
delightful utilities. He does oper- 
ate a support BBS at (914)623- 
0039 from his home in Nyack, New 
York. 


Dvorak’s Guide to PC Connectivity 
is interesting because it addresses 
the real connectivity issues indi- 
viduals grapple with on a daily 
basis. It’s eclectic collection of soft- 
ware and varied approach to com- 
mon problems make this one of the 
most useful books to be published 
this year. Osborne McGraw-Hill 
turned it down and Bantaam-Dou- 
bleday-Dell is publishing it and we 
would project Osborne will not be 
happy over this state of affairs be- 
fore it’s all over. The book is pro- 
jected at 950 pages with availabil- 
ity at the end of October - $49.95 
is what we were told. Bantaam, 
666 5th Ave., New York, NY 10103; 
(800)223-6834. 


NEW COMMUNICATIONS 
PACKAGE IN WORKS FOR 
PCBOARD - PCBCOMM 


Clark Development, developers of 
the popular PCBoard BBS soft- 
ware, is developing a new compan- 
ion product for callers titled PCBC- 


omm. 


PCBComm, which went into alpha 
testing on August 30, will essen- 
tially act as a terminal program 
with a 100 entry dialing directory 
that can be used to call any BBS. 
But when coupled with a PCBoard 
BBS running version 14.6a or 
later, the program interacts with 
PCBoard software to make the onl- 
ine session much more automatic. 
The program offers a windowed 
interface with mouse support al- 
lowing callers to pick items off a 
menu. The program then transfers 
the necessary commands to the 
PCBoard system to make it hap- 
pen. All features of PCBoard are 
available through this new front 
end program. In this respect, it 
provides PCBoard BBS systems a 
user interface program much after 
the fashion of CompuServe’s CIM 
or GEnie’s Alladin. 


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The program will run under Win- 
dows 3.0 or DOS, and should pro- 
vide a much slicker, smoother in- 
terface to a PCBoard BBS. Callers 
will be able to tag files with a 
mouse and download in a batch. 
Navigating message conferences 
will be much easier. The company 
does not plan on any offline mail 
functions. Pricing and release 
date have not been set. The com- 
pany showed a preliminary copy 
PCBComm at the FidoCon91 held 
in Denver in August. Clark Devel- 
opment Co., Inc., 3950 South 700 
East, Suite 303, Murray, Utah 
84107; (801)261-1686 voice; 
earn -8987 fax; (801)261-8976 


10,000 SHAREWARE 
PROGRAMS ON CD-ROM - 
$159 


Night Owl Computer Service is 
making quite a splash with a 
shareware CD-ROM collection 
many BBS operators are snapping 
up. The CD contains 10,700 IBM 
files occupying 507 MB of space 
and the files appear to be very cur- 
rent. The files are setup for use 
with PCBoard systems and the di- 
rectory text files are already in- 
cluded for 35 subdirectories. Best 
of all, you can sign up for four 
quarterly updates at a significant 
discount. Night Owl operates a 
PCBoard BBS at 716-881-5688 
using the US Robotics HST Dual 
Standard modem. The CD-ROM is 
priced at $159 for end users and 
$120 for BBS system operators. 
Sysop Richard Graham has the 
CD-ROMs made himself. Night 
Owl Computer Service, 219 Poto- 
mac Ave., Buffalo, NY 14218; 716- 
886-2726. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


A TALE OF TWO 
CITIES 
Impressions of 
FIDOCONS1 and 
the VIA 
Convention 


by Stephen Laliberte 


Over this past summer I had the 
good fortune to attend two of our 
industry's most important conven- 
tions. In June, attended the 
Videotext Industry Association 
(VIA) convention in Washington, 
DC and in August I went to FidoC- 
on 91 in Denver. 


The ViA convention was a polished 
affair. Before my presentation, I 
was required to submit a resume, 
a handout, and prepare slides. All 
the attendees received a 100 page 
booklet with all the presentation 
handouts, notes and speaker’s pic- 
tures. All the titans were there ei- 
ther speaking, demonstrating or 
making deals over dinner. Compu- 
Serve, Prodigy, America On-Line, 
Delphi, US Videotel, all the Bell 
gateways and hundreds of hopeful 
participants. The average title on 
the attendees list was at least two 
or three lines long. 


There was a new sense of reality at 
this year’s convention. Attendance 
was way down. Competition was 
way up. The big boys have been 
spending lots of money on ad cam- 
paigns and boosting their circula- 
tions up and up with Prodigy now 
boasting over one million pass- 
words and CIS over 800,000. It was 
clear that there was rapid growth 
in the industry and everyone 
seemed to agree that this industry 
had arrived. 


There was a great deal of focus on 
technology. The main themes cen- 
tered on cheaper higher band con- 
nectivity and better user inter- 
faces. The focus was entirely on 
centralized computing delivered 
over massive nace networks. Ev- 
eryone was concerned about get- 
ting the masses on-line by offering 


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better user interfaces. Prodigy’s 
apparent success is fanning inter- 
est in NAPLPS. 


Steve Case, President of Quantum, 
(America On-Line) reported that of 
the top five on-line services only 
Prodigy was losing money. Amer- 
ica On-Line reported second quar- 
ter sales of $4 million with profits 
over $1 million. CompuServe now 
reports annual revenues of $98 
million up 22% over last year (IDP 
Aug. 16, 1991). There is no mention 
of the profit rate. It was clear that 
a host of programmers had 
switched to gray suits and were 
engaging in the task of becoming 
businessmen and building an in- 
dustry. 


FidoCon91 was everything that 
the VIA was not. Attendance was 
way up - the largest Con ever. More 
people attended FidoCon than at- 
tended the VIA. There was excite- 
ment and enthusiasm everywhere. 
Instead of sipping scotch for $5.00 
a glass, I enjoyed a Jolt cola from 
an ice filled bath tub at the eSoft 
hospitality room. I shed my 
pinstriped suit and wing-tip shoes 
and donned my jeans, T shirt and 
Nikes. The Con was disorganized, 
frantic and guarded by security 
men in full Scottish guard attire 
complete with kilt and sword. 


The convention more resembled a 
revival meeting than a Con. The 
cat has gotten out of the bag - some 
people are making a lot of money 
running a local BBS. In his open- 
ing remarks, Phil Becker, Presi- 
dent of eSoft, reported a married 
couple running a 32 line BBS with 
profits of $1 million per year. My 
guess is that the cumulative prof- 
its from commercial BBSs may in 
fact exceed those of the big boys. 


Even with this new realization 
that had many sysops thinking 
about going commercial, the bulk 
of the convention centered on tech- 
nology, specifically the BBS soft- 
ware and how modems work. It 
was great fun to meet all the gurus 
who built the likes of PC Board, 
Major BBS, Quick BBS and TBBS. 
They all had very much in com- 
mon, they caught the BBS bug and 
wanted to make it better. 


“WILDCAT! 3.0... 


Right From The Start 


Information on your most important system-wide statistics, 
including users, files, messages, and node 1D number. System 
togeles are also displayed on screen. 


‘Wildcat! vSl00 | 


x ~~ WILDCAT! HQ BAS Rag. No.: &6-0001 


= Database — 
Users = 3,942: $2 
Files = 9,584 
Maga = 8,125 
Node = 22 


System 
Total Calls = 266,187 

Drive F © 325,616,384 
Minutes Idle = 7 

Next Event = Fri 12:00a/Flex 


Quick statistics can be reset from the idle screen here, or from 
any of the 65 000 events available 24 hours a day. A daily reser; 
keeps the sysop informed. 


Last caller 
Seott Hunter at 7:lip on 05/22/91 | 
Status 
| Waiting for calls at 8:37a | 


Quick Stats since 05/22/91 12:39a 


Calls = 190 Downloads = 423 
Messages = 133 Uploads 213 


Wildcat! BBS (c) 1987,91 Mustang Software, Inc. Bakersfield, CA (805-395-0223) 


Local activity buttons for login as sysop or user.drive space 
display, node status for all lines with caller activity information. 
and access ta.a DOS shell and menu facility for running other 
programs. Console activity can be password locked. 


Sysop Toggles 


More Information including total calls, main drive space . 
how long since the last call and the next pending event. 


F3-Printer OFF F5-Bell OFF 
F4-Page ON F2-Kybd ON 


User Maintenance 


—_ ee 


Record number : 1463 Match: NONE 
. 5 { 1] Name : RICK HEMING (17) Sec level : STAFF 
Multiple access. This screen can be accessed from the sysop VER) BES ThE Gee ao) Bao dete  CEVERVED 
ment (naturally), but also after reading every message to enable [ 3] Help level: Novice [19] User since: 04/01/87 
PT wit , ; pee tae eAPd: - yy Cag ; q { 4] Password : PRIVATE Age: 41 [20] D.0.5. : 05/10/50 
editing USCIS sending, recelving, 01 being discussed in a Pre ne tie etdnarsas-023 i ig ap ety ie 
message. Exiting user maintenance immediately returns to the [ 6] Phone {D] : é (22) # Calle: 1841 
messaye you left. { 7] Last call : 05/22/91 8:31" [23] Page avail: NO 
5 5 : { 83} Commant 1 : Hinson : [24] Color on YES 
ici . 5 ineluch Gaal sri 1 9] Comment 2 : [25] E-Prompt : YES 
Full demographic information including a second screen | ae” =— Beteat tac eee 
with an alias name and user-specific conference and file area [11] Address 1 :. 760, Box 2264 [27] File diap : Double line 
access overrides. (22] Address 2%; 915 - 17th Street [28] Editor : Full Sereen 
(13] City <* + Bakersfield (29] Pretocol : No default 
MoS ’ {14) Stute : CA (30] N-mail bal: 3326 
Control by conference (1,000 of them) for co-sysop status, usifate tere E56) Aaa oo) a SE 
user title, log-on time and more. 


={16) Country : USA 


Edit Command [1..32], [FJind, [SJearch, [C]onference, {N]ext, [J]ump, [A]dd. 
(M]atch/Set, [P])rev., [H]elp, {D]elete, [E]xtra Info, [W]rite, [Q]uit? 


Match by security or expiration date to view all who 
meet your criteria, then [W]rite them a message explaining the 
changes with immediate return to the user record. 


\ 4 
e e 
File Maintenance / . 
Record number : 1425 Match: AREA 25 
Database security Only the files you specify in the B-Tree Pee nee ea Eeyore aeee ame eit Bee a 
indexed database can be downloaded, and you can catalogue up (3) Last access : 05/17/91 12:21a 117) on cD-RoM : NO 
10 2 billion files from 1 000 file areas and 4,000 subdirectories. ( 4] Size : 23,612 [18] No charge TENG) 
{ 5] Uploaded by : HUGH MITCHELL {19] Never OWrite : NO 
6 Keywords provide fast indexed file searches. They can be on oe a ne ee a es 
entered by the caller. or generated from the description. { 8) Key 2 : FILES. BBS _@ 122) 0/L in progress: NO 
“0 2 ht 9) Key 3 : CONVERT wo > {23] Stored offline : NO 
Description text starts with a brief 65 character field and~*<-¥’ 09) Key & oe —lti“(ié‘i lm rs 
allows an extended description up to 15 lines of 80 characters. | 02) Neegee gi ap AIT TR at ea 
INS AEAY Thort Gane.” Converts joard’s files.bbs to wc2.55 for upgrade 
Name of uploader. # of downloads, date of last download, Eee uf 2 pea 2 Pa Ben a2 
stored on CD ROM or off-line are all tracked for each file. [M]atch/Set, [Rlead, [Nlext, [Dlelete, [Jlusp, [V]iew, [X]fer, [Q]uit? 
X 4 
Software, Inc. 
.O. Box 2264 Bakersfield, CA 93303 l 3 ; 4 
Bie For Orders Only t’sa killer. WILDCAT! 3.0 has been completely re-written wi 
(800) 247-6385 and ready to make your BBS the best around. While it’s impossit 
For Office/Inquiries (805) 395-0223 feature-for-feature, no other BBS even comes close. Get your ha 


For a BBS preview (805) 395-0650 
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a New Breed of Cat.’ 


The Big Picture 


: SCOTT HUNTER (MSI Staff) ae : 838 of 911 
To : GWEN te H 22/91 9:00a 
Subject : guats of Ra eerenca 
Read fb O54i5 373 eae ea (REPLIES) Private r] 
Conf ¢ 01 - WILDCAT! 3.0 Diacuassion 
- like the full aa amanted. 1 do hav fox , 7; Saf 3 5 Seg A Ay 
Ce TERE a> GRD: GEARS CEEOE 9 CORGCE: BO i oe lo have ogee Message quoting is available either automatically or ona 


-> Am I forced to request quoted lines when X want to include them? line-by line basis on request. 


you can get Aute-quote in ate user record to place the entire text of the 
eis nal Be CCh into your aie y, then you can simply delete the unwanted and 
unreferenced lines using Ctr. 

Doorway mode ia fully supported aa well 

-> Can I use any kind of off-line reader with WILDCAT! 3.0? 

Sure, as long as its .QWK compatible. The main mail door for WILDCAT! is Tomcat!. 
epg ig cr Greates .QHK packets roadable by your choice of mail readera that interpret 


If you have any more queationa jaut ask. 


Full screen editor The visual editor includes support for 
cursor commands, full doorway control including Home, End. 
PeUp. PeDn. etc., and WordStar commands. 


Net & Echomail messages can he tossed directly in and 


Wigcnaed’ #3 30 a STi), Fhidese, iriorward, [sJelp, (K)411, (Jonatop out of any WILDCAT! conference with Binkleyterm, D’ Bridge or 
(Fl rint, Juit Rlaply! eaTyadp. [ENTER @ ext | ef 5 


Front Door. 


‘ Rustang gegtvace, the pe oF File attachments to a message result in an additional 
RiNER goon fait 2 no cage GC EE (eel ah a Ge command line option to [DJownload the attachment, with 


immediate return to the message after completion. 


VGA/EGA resolution for the sysop allows the local screen 
to use enhanced display modes to view a complete user record 
on screen with the active user display above. 


: Bakeratiold, “Ga 93303 USA 
3 aan 

Commant 2 Naver Delete: YES Net Bal:§ 
19200 WILDCAT! 3.0 Discussion 


Time: 


Conf: 


Baud: 


[17] MOGMAIL3.ZIP Sample Scripta for Wildcat automated mail transfer - Qmodem 


(18] PCPPRO2.ZIP = Procomm Plus 2.0 PC-Purauit ASP Program Marking Files 


(19) PRCM243.ZzIP Procomm 2.4.3 all files includad in zip 


{20] CONV. zIP converts PCBoard’s files bbs to wc2.55 for upgrade to 3.6 
(21] WILDMAIL1 ZIP Update to mail scanner/tosser/packer for WC3 & DB, FD & Bink 
(22] TOMCAT3.ZIP © TOMCAT! .QWK Mail Door for WILDCAT! 3.0, use with reader File listings can be formatted as single line . double line or 
Mark File C id « #-8),(A)11, [(E]di iew, [Hlelp): 7 E - * . > 

Wd Oeste toemabae tee een tah (elec igee ae G Le Ps full file information display. Get full [I] nformation on any file 
Bree eye oe, WS ee including the extended 15 line description, [VJiew a compre ssed 
=e ge eke Po Si file, {Download or [M] ark files after each screen display. 
(1) BBSVALET. ZIP 9,154 00:00:06 
{ 2] BEWCONV.zIP $4,833 90: 00:09 Mark files by numbers such as 1-5.7.9 rather than typing the 
{ 3] Br4BoYAN. ZIP 3,089 90:00:92 Ee, BR as - eee a, A 
ea RE 149, ae ae ae cryptic filenames. Continue fo view the listing until you have 
{ 5] BoYaNéo2.21P 110,989 00:01:33 marked all desired files, then request a download and preview 
[6] CATCALI1.zIP 25,591 00:00:17 your marked list. 
€ 7] csS.zrp 2,560 @0:00:01 > 
Rot sles les) Oueed se0/ Li byt as aag rat tne File Search hased on name. keyword, uploader or description 

z Foes Ae oavo nese text also allows file marking of found files for later download. 


Edit command: [R]amove item, {C)lear Liat, [A]dd file, [Q]uit edit? [Q] 


e 
\ / File Transfer 
TiS hia en aes LaLa. LS. CSC : : 
f Batch downloads are supported using internal Ymodem, 


{ 7] DSz0228.z2IP 87,017 00:07:33 & . . 
Download Active Ymodem-G, Zmodem, and Kermit, and a special batch emulation 

for sending batches of previously marked files using Xmodem, 

Xmodem-CRC and 1K-Xmodem. External protocols can be 


Protecol : Zmadem (Cra32) File time lafr: 00:04:19 


{D]ownlo| Throughput: 3650 CPS 1794 Hatch time left: 00:13:11 Z 
[E] dit AutaLogO£f: TES : Elapsed time  : 00104137 added easily. Ymodem-G reaches 1750+cps! 
[A]dd 
beleeaam ee a | Batch uploads using all internal and external protocols is 
See fully supported with optional virus checking of each file. 
Command? 5 f " : e 
fending {commad.arz } , Wile aize ; 202962 Full status is displayed on screen including batch and file 
Please =| $ def ) [e8.2zIP } Bytes sent :  aInua vrcentage scroll bars along with other statistics 
4 Sof 2 (DrALéez.aiP } Bytes lert : «0570 PRUCEMOSE: St Mons, CNEL SIAL CS: 
{Z] Zmod # G6 ot 3 [O088-ANSZ. ZI} Block six : p24 . 
(e] vmodtets Bo oansaag cies ace Picea eee 308 99 files can be uploaded or downloaded per request using any 
Blocks left : 60 internal transfer protocol. 
Select ( Bleck errora: Sa | 
File errora: o : 
Ready to 


“Presa <CTRL> PgDn to abort transfer 


Sanding file(s), <CTRL> X to abort... 


\ 


ver 75 new features and speed to spare. This cat is out of the bag 
00 tell you everything new about WILDCAT! 3.0, we can say that z 
on the world’s fastest growing BBS system — that just got better. Sonia: 


Software Etc stores nationwide! 


33 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


FALKEN 6.0 System Profile 


System: The Doctor’s Baud Rate: 300/1200/2400/9600 
Office BBS Protocol: 8-bits, no parily 
Sysop: “Doc’’ PCPursuit: DCWAS 
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No/Lines: 16 Software: Falken 6.0 


“A couple years ago I offered to try Falken BBS Software. To my surprise it 
wan like no other BBS software that I have ever nin and I have been a Sysop 
for over 11 years now. 


‘Why Falken Software? Becausc it had alot of features that I already had 
minning a single line system and Teleconferencing. Yes! live chat among the 
users online not just with the sysop. Also, it has Doors, Message Bases, 
G-files, private E-mail and much, much more and it gets better all the time. 


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less! and he listens! I can go on and on about Falken software, but I want to 
say that I have looked into other BBS software. The cost of the software was 
prohibitive to me let alone the hardware to run it. With Falken, I can run 
anything from a one line system to a 16 line system!! 


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Support System (also man by the author, Herb Rose) and when I asked a 
question in e-mail or message base the next day it was answered... The 
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@ E-Mail with distribution lists. 


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Having experienced these two con- 
ventions, I was amazed that these 
two worlds seem like two cities 
that are very much alike but have 
little knowledge of one another. 
Both produce very similar prod- 
ucts; they offer electronic mail, 
boards-forums-conferences-roun 
dtables, and file libraries. Both 
seek to connect the world yet nei- 
ther one will even admit that the 
other exists. The big boys do not 
think the BBS community will 
ever be a threat because they are 
so disorganized. The BBS commu- 
nity knows the big boys are out to 
lunch and their pricey centralized 
technology will never survive. 


My sense is that these two cities 
will eventually meet in a war. It 
will be a war for the hearts and 
minds of subscribers. Both cities 
believe that the implements of that 
war will be technology and they are 
both investing in new and better 
ways to deliver their services. 


Iam excited and encouraged about 
the growth and the competition. 
Yes, we do have an industry here. 
I am concerned, maybe because 
most of us are programmers at 
heart, that we still do not fully 
understand what it is we are trying 
to do. In all the presentations from 
both conventions there was not one 
presentation on what the callers 
really want, why they use the ser- 
vices and what we can do to meet 
their need for information, files 
and community. 


Coming from the publishing busi- 
ness, I can see many parallels in 
the development of the magazine 
and radio stations and LIFE mag- 
azine in the 40s. Others are focus- 
ing on tight niches or serve regions 
like the local radio affiliates and 
magazines like SAIL. We have 
large world-wide operations and 
local outfits with cheap transmit- 
ters. 


Yes, it is the best of times and the 
worst of times. I can’t wait to see 
the next chapters. 


(Stephen Laliberte is the Direc- 
tor ofthe BYTE Information Ex- 
change, an on-line service pub- 
lished by BYTE Magazine - Ed- 
itor] 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


THE BBS AS A 
BUSINESS 


WHAT TO DO WHEN THE 
BANK SAYS NO - HOW TO 
GET A MC/VISA MERCHANT 
ACCOUNT 


by Jack Rickard 


Last month we covered some of the 
elements involved in running a 
BBS as a sideline business for 
profit. You may recall that one of 
the most crucial elements dis- 
cussed in inducing callers to sup- 
port a small online service was con- 
venience. Essentially, at this point 
in the game the majority of callers 
are willing to support "pay" BBS 
financially, as long as it doesn’t 
require them to make a project of 
the process. And that inevitably 
brings us to the ability to accept 
subscriptions via credit card. 


The two most common credit cards 
you will run into are Master Card 
and Visa. Master Card numbers 
are always 16 digits and always 
begin with the numeral 5. Visa 
numbers are either 13 or 16 digits 
and always begin with the nu- 
meral 4. Almost all merchant ac- 
counts accept either Master Card 
of Visa. Two other credit cards you 
may occasionally run into are DIS- 
COVER (Sears), and American Ex- 
press. In most cases, accepting 
these two cards involve additional 
charges and in the case of Ameri- 
can Express, significantly higher 
discount and transaction fees. 
While there is some demand for 
American Express, a merchant ac- 
count allowing just Master Card or 
Visa will accommodate 99% of your 
callers. For most operators, the ad- 
ditional coverage is not usually 
worth the additional fees. Pretend 
you’re the Olympics. 


Accepting credit cards doesn’t 
come free. You almost always pay 
a discount fee - actually a cut of the 
action. The bank retains a percent- 
age of the charges you run. This 
varies usually between 2.25 and 
4.00%. If you use electronic ticket 
capture to automate the process, 


35 


you decrease the bank's processing 
tasks and they will usually charge 
you the low end of this range. 


The best way to process merchant 
accounts is through your own bank 
of course. They issue you a busi- 
ness checking account, a merchant 
account to accept credit cards, and 
help you get set up. You will have 
to sign a merchant agreement. The 
last time I looked at ours, I believe 
it gave the bank the legal right to 
size our money, home, children, 
pets, and a pound of flesh from 
each adult in the household. There 
may have been something about 
the right to shake down our friends 
and neighborhood pets for contri- 
butions as well. 


You will normally be classified ei- 
ther as a mail order merchant or 
electronic ticket capture mer- 
chant. In either case, you will be 
required to obtain an authoriza- 
tion code for each credit card 
charge you accept if you do not 
have a signed form from the sub- 
scriber authorizing the charge. In 
accepting online subscriptions, 
you normally will NOT have alegal 
signature with each order. 


The usual way of obtaining an au- 
thorization code is to dial into the 
network with a touch-tone tele- 
phone. You key in the digits of the 
credit card number, the expiration 
date of the card, and the amount of 
purchase using the telephone key- 
pad in response to an automated 
voice prompt. The voice then an- 
nounces a numeric authorization 
code which you write on the form. 
This can actually be a bit tedious 
for one or two charges and if you 
process fifteen of them in a batch, 
it can be grueling. Worse, the re- 
sult is a pile of batch tickets that 
must be taken to the bank and 
deposited much as you would 
checks. 


The next level of automation is an 
electronic ticket capture device. 
We used a Verifone unit for a 
month or so. This is a small elec- 
tronic terminal about the size of a 
shoe box with the card slot, a nu- 
meric keypad, and an RJ-11 con- 
nector that connected to the tele- 
phone line. It allows you to just 
swipe the card through a slot to 
read the credit card number and 
expiration date and asmall keypad 


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to enter the charge amount. Since 
you rarely actually have a physical 
card in the online world, you must 
also enter the credit card number 
and expiration date through the 
keypad. 


The advantage to the Verifone is 
there is no voice prompt and the 
device would do all the dialing for 
you to clear the transaction - dis- 
playing the authorization code on 
a little LED readout. Further, at 
the end of the day you enter a 
special code to "close the batch" 
and the device dials in and signals 
the network that you're through 
for the day. Most importantly, the 
money is actually deposited in your 
business checking account - usu- 
ally the next day. You don’t have to 
go to the bank at all. But you still 
have to make out the charge slips 
by hand and keep them on file. The 
cost of a Verifone device is around 
$200 and most banks will lease you 
one for around $10 per month. 


The Verifone device actually con- 
tains a 300 baud modem. It seems 
a little wasteful to pay $200 for 
such a specialized modem if you 
already have a roomful of much 
more capable modems. Fortu- 
nately, in most cases you can also 
run a software program. American 
Digital makes one of the best of 
these in a product called Soft*De- 
posit. Essentially, you enter the 
same information through your PC 
into a database that can hold up to 
999 transactions. Your PC and 
modem emulate the Verifone in 
many ways but there are numer- 
ous advantages. For one thing, you 
can import text files generated by 
your BBS with the information 
into the database. You can also 
print out reports listing all the 
transactions, the authorization 
codes, etc. to keep on file. Soft*De- 
posit is priced at $289, but we 
understand from American Digital 
President Dave Carter that they 
will discount this to $99.95 for 
Boardwatch readers. American 
Digital Inc., 8585 S.W. Fir Lane 
Terrace, Portland, OR 97228; 
(503)293-3853. 


The final level of automation is of 
course the BBS itself. In theory, it 
should be possible for callers to 
enter their credit card number, ex- 
piration date, and the amount and 
have the BBS dial out to clear the 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


charges with the bank all automat- 
ically. We’re not quite there yet and 
the situation is complicated by the 
fact that there are numerous BBS 
software packages, and also nu- 
merous online networks that clear 
the credit card charges. Essen- 
tially, you don’t have many options 
on the latter. Whatever network 
your bank uses is the one you're 
more or less stuck with and there 
are a number of them in operation 
- each requiring different software. 
CDB Systems is currently develop- 
ing a door program for use with 
Ultra BBS and PCBoard systems 
to do this and they have it working 
now with at least one network. 
They’re pricing the door at $195 
and will customize to your partic- 
ular network, if necessary, for 
$100. You can see this in action on 
their Pinecliff BBS at (303)642- 
7463. 


Automation can certainly make 
the process of clearing credit card 
charges easier, but the biggest 
problem facing many BBS opera- 
tors is obtaining the merchant ac- 
count and the ability to process 
credit card charges at all. With the 
increases in fraud, this is increas- 
ingly difficult as banks become 
more leery of mail order and elec- 
tronic operations in general. While 
most operators can eventually ob- 
tain one, many really are shut out. 
An alternative is a service com- 
pany that does this specifically for 
you - acting as a middleman be- 
tween the banking community and 
their customers. 


We've looked around quite a bit 
and were discouraged by most of 
these service operations. Many 
just aren’t particularly trustwor- 
thy and most wanted a high (6%- 
8%) discount fee. But we did finally 
find one that we're pretty comfort- 
able with. Peachtree Bancard op- 
erates a credit card charge clearing 
operation on a national basis and 
increasingly we're finding BBS op- 
erators, particularly in regions like 
California and New York where it’s 
very tough to get merchant status, 
turning to this organization. It’s 
large, stable, with a reasonable 
3.5-4.0% discount fee. They do get 
you a little bit on the equipment 
rental, but clearly a service com- 
pany has to make a profit on some- 
thing and the equipment is actu- 
ally pretty impressive. 


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According to Michael Liberatore, a 
Peachtree representative in the 
Pittsburgh area, the company wel- 
comes BBS operators and he per- 
sonally intends to develop this 
market a bit more fully. 


Peachtree doesn’t come free, but 
for operators looking for a solution, 
it’s probably a pretty good one. The 
trick is that the company leases a 
ZON Jr. XL electronic ticket cap- 
ture terminal to the client at $59- 
$69 monthly on a 48 month lease. 
At the end of the lease, you own the 
equipment. The equipment is actu- 
ally pretty deluxe with a receipt 
printer and so on, but is relatively 
expensive. According to 
Liberatore, the equipment allows 
them to tie a client into their elec- 
tronic network very quickly and 
they do deposit charges directly 
into the client’s business checking 
account - usually within two days. 
By using a known equipment set, 
installation issues are largely 
eliminated. He also mentions that 
they may allow a software solution 
in the future because he is seeing 
a lot of computer users interested 

in their service. If they do, existing 
clients will be let out of their lease 

to take advantage of the new tech- 

nique. 


In addition to the monthly lease, 
Peachtree quotes a discount rate of 
3.57%. While this is on the high 
end of regular bank merchant ac- 
counts, it is virtually free com- 
pared to the 6%-8% that many ser- 
vice companies charge. Again ac- 
cording to Liberatore, the applica- 
tion process typically takes about 
2 1/2 weeks from the time a client 
calls until they are on site install- 
ing the equipment. There is a $95 
application fee plus two months of 
the lease in advance - refundable 
in the event the application is de- 
clined. When questioned on the 
percentage of applicants declined, 
Liberatore stated that essentially 
99% of applicants are approved. 
"Realistically, you have to have 
some kind of fraud conviction or 
something like that to be declined. 
We've actually provided service to 
people with a bankruptcy record”, 
said Liberatore. Contact Michael 
Liberatore, Peachtree Bancard, 
681 Anderson Drive, 4th floor, 
peal. PA 15220; 800-258- 
7. i 


LAW ONLINE 


NEW LIMITS ON DATABASE 
COPYRIGHT PROTECTION 


by Lance Rose 

How is a bulletin board system 
different from a telephone book? 
The way this question is answered 
will determine how much copy- 
right protection is available for 
databases on BBS's, thanks to a 
recent decision by the U.S. Su- 
preme Court. 


USE OF BBS’S TO MAINTAIN 
DATABASES 


BBS's have uses far beyond their 
original functions of transmitting 
messages and files. One of their 
major new uses is to act as reposi- 
tories for various kinds of 
databases. Such use is increasing, 
as shown by the increased demand 
for database management capabil- 
ities in BBS software. Database 
capabilities can either be inte- 
grated in the software, or accessed 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


through a "door" in the BBS soft- 
ware to a popular stand-alone 
database management package. 


The kinds of databases maintained 
in BBS’s are as varied as the kinds 
of information found in the world. 
Demographic statistics, price lists, 
Usenet nodes, lists of suppliers of 
goods and services, and so on. The 
publisher of this very magazine 
runs a BBS, with extensive lists of 
phone numbers and other data re- 
garding other BBS’s around the 
country. Database uses of BBS’s 
are bound to increase in the future, 
as BBS’s are an ideal means for 
distributing information effi- 
ciently to geographically sepa- 
rated users. 


The basic soundness of this ap- 
proach is amply demonstrated by 
the large, established companies 
that offer access to an array of data 
sources, such as Dialog, Mead 
Data Central (who provide Lexis 
and Nexis), Maxwell On-Line, and 
Dow Jones. BBS’s, being much 
smaller operations, would natu- 
rally fill a different niche, serving 
specialized hobbyists, technical in- 
terests, and commercial needs. For 


instance, a BBS specializing in or- 
chids could provide a listing of sup- 
pliers nationally, lists of the types 
of orchids available from different 
suppliers, keep records of inci- 
dence of diseases among orchids, a 
list of flower shows around the 
country featuring orchids, and so 
on. Such a database could be effec- 
tively maintained by a small, ded- 
icated group of people, and made 
available to callers around the 
country on the BBS. 


Derivative products are a natural 
outgrowth. A sysop can comple- 
ment his database BBS with a 
print or electronic magazine dis- 
tributed to users around the coun- 
try, thus "decentralizing" small 
parts of his data. He could also 
transfer substantial chunks of 
data on-line or through disk, either 
for money, or free of charge for the 
sole purpose of maximizing dis- 
semination of the data. 


THE SUPREME COURT 
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tain databases. In Feist Publica- 
tions v. Rural Telephone Service 
Co., __ U.S. __ (1991), the Court 
held that certain directories and 
other data compilations will re- 
ceive little or no protection under 
the copyright laws. Feist involved 
a claim of infringing a "white 
pages" phone directory, but the 
Court’s broad ruling will apply to 
fact databases in all media, includ- 
ing the electronically stored 
databases found on BBS’s. 


Before Feist, some federal courts 
granted copyright protection to 
data compilations based on the 
compiler’s work in collecting the 
data, regardless of whether the 
compiler did anything new or orig- 
inal. The Supreme Court held that 
such work (sometimes referred to 
as "sweat of the brow") is not 
enough to qualify for copyright pro- 
tection. It is fundamental that 
copyright law can not be used to 
protect "facts", which must be 
available to all for public use and 
discussion. Merely collecting facts 
into a data "compilation" does not 
change this principle - if the indi- 


vidual facts are not protected, they 
don’t gain any copyright protection 
by being bunched together. 


All databases now must contain 
original "selection, coordina- 
tion or arrangement" of the data 
by the compiler to receive copy- 
right protection. Normal phone di- 
rectories are an example of 
databases that do not meet this 
standard, and are not copyright- 
able. They all use the same stan- 
dardized, unoriginal format - 
name, address and telephonenum- 
ber, arranged alphabetically by 
last name. In contrast, an original 
arrangement scheme that further 
organized this data in terms of the 
age of the owner of the house at 
each listed address might well 
qualify for copyright protection as 
an original arrangement. 


The Court also held that even 
where a given data compilation is 
copyrighted, it might only receive 
"thin" copyright protection. This 
means copying data in the exact 
form presented by the compiler 
will infringe (such as photocopying 


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pages of a print directory, or copy- 
ing the database file held in-the 
BBS), while taking the data and 
using it in a different form would 
not. 


This reflects the rule that the 
compiler’s original presentation of 
facts can be copyrighted, but not 
the facts themselves. 


The Feist decision affects all fac- 
tual compilations, such as directo- 
ries, bibliographies and various 
kinds of statistical data, and re- 
duces the copyright protection pre- 
viously thought to apply in many 
cases. It does not, however, reduce 
the copyright protection available 
for texts, music, computer pro- 
grams, or other non-compilation 
works. To illustrate the distinc- 
tion, consider a BBS that electron- 
ically publishes both a series of 
text newsletters and an index to 
those newsletters. The newsletters 
themselves will retain the full 
copyright protection they enjoyed 
previously, while the index will 


now receive greatly reduced copy- 
mien protection, or perhaps none 
at all. 


DATABASE PROTECTION 
STRATEGIES 


With this new gap in database 
copyright protection, some BBS 
operators may need to develop new 
strategies to bolster their "owner- 
ship" of the data on their BBS’s. 


(1) Explore legal theories of data 
ownership besides copyright. 
Some databases can be effectively 
protected under trade secret and 
confidentiality laws. This ap- 
proach can work well for private 
databases such as internal R&D 
data or internal company records 
on an in-house BBS, and privately 
distributed databases used by in- 
vestors or industrial researchers. 
Other databases depend on mass 
availability to be useful, and can- 
not sensibly be treated as secret. 
Such databases include informa- 
tion shared by scientific communi- 
ties, news, phone books, and travel 
and transportation directories. 


There is also non-copyright legal 
protection for "hot news". BBS’s 
delivering up-to-the-minute infor- 
mation can prevent others from 
intercepting that information and 
redistributing it in competition 
with them. This protection is avail- 
able for wire and broadcast news 
services, and probably for real- 
time and slightly delayed market 
information services for investors, 
among others. There are serious 
questions about its availability for 
BBS’s that are not primarily 
"news" oriented, and how long a 
poacher has to wait before it can 
freely redistribute the data. 


(2) Use practical measures to max- 
imize copyright protection under 
the "selection, coordination and ar- 
rangement" standard adopted by 
the Supreme Court. One way is to 
increase the amount of "editorial" 
work done in compiling and ar- 
ranging the data, and to document 
the ways in which the data com- 
piler imposes an original form on 
his database. The BBS may also 
deny access by outsiders to "raw 
data” in easily separable form. The 
sysop can integrate public domain 
data with textual or other material 
that he clearly owns, and claim 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


ownership of the resulting compos- 
ite work. This greatly increases the 
amount of labor necessary for data 
users to free up and utilize the 
uncopyrightable factual data for 
other purposes. 


(3) Finally, BBS’s can reduce ac- 
cess to their data by outsiders, 
making it more difficult for them 
to copy sizable chunks of the 
database. Public BBS’s can do this 
by raising connect-time fees, 
search fees, and download fees; re- 
ducing absolutely the amount of 
searching or downloading that can 
be performed by users within a 
hour or a day; and reducing the 
speed at which data can be 
downloaded. Of course, all these 
measures are limited by the reali- 
ties of how many limitations users 
will accept in order to gain access 
to the data in the BBS. 


The Feist decision does not 
threaten to destroy the market for 
computerized databases, though it 
will strongly skew the course of its 
development. The important thing 
for BBS database purveyors is to 
become aware of the newly estab- 
lished limits on legal protection, 
and prepare and present their data 
products accordingly. 


[Lance Rose is an attorney who 
works primarily in the fields of 
computer and high technology 
law and intellectual property. 
His clients include on-line pub- 
lishers, electronic funds trans- 
fer networks, data tranamis- 
sion services, individual system 
operators, and shareware au- 
thors and vendors. He ia cur- 
rently revising SYSLAW, The 
Sysop’s Legal Manual. Lance is 
a partner in the New York City 
firm of Greenspoon, Srager, 
Gaynin, Daichman & Marino, 
and can be reached by voice at 
(212)888-6880, on the Well as 
"elrose", by Internet as 
elrose@well.sf.ca.us, and on 
CompuServe at 72230,2044. Copy- 
right 1991 Lance Rose - Editor] 


DIRECT DIAL 


KAKADU KONNECTION - 
BBS IN DARWIN AUSTRALIA 


Tom Koltai is a Unix consultant 
living in Darwin, Northwest Terri- 
tory, Australia. He sells and main- 
tains a fairly hi-powered system to 
24 legal firms at about $360,000 
each and as long as he can sell one 
a year, he makes a pretty good 
living. The rest of the time, he 
plays with bulletin board systems. 
A self-described patriot, he also 
does whatever and whenever he 
can to help promote tourism in the 
Northwest Territory. 


Koltai operates a 5 line TBBS sys- 
tem he calls Kakadu Konnection 
at 61 89 480 700 (from the U.S., 
dial 011 before dialing this num- 
ber). Kakadu is an aboriginal term 
that literally translates to "Land 
where the snake vomited up the 
world". It seems that like most peo- 
ples of the earth, the native aborig- 
ines of the Northwest Territory 
have an opinion on how the dirty 
ball of water got started, and in 
their folk tales, a rainbow snake 
puked the planet. A large escarp- 
ment in the area looks to many like 
a gigantic coiled snake - probably 
the one that did the dirty deed. 


Kakadu Connection was primarily 
designed as a file storage and for- 
warding service for Koltai’s legal 
clientele. But he’s expanded the 
system to include an impressive 
file collection, messages, chat, an 
assortment of online publications, 
and a tourism database listing 
Northwest Territory accommoda- 
tions, tourist spots, etc. 


Among the publications online are 
several developed from within the 
Australian sysop community. The 
most popular is probably a publi- 
cation titled CRAP. CRAP is gen- 
erated by five or six system opera- 
tors and publishes every time they 
get around to it. There were four 
issues published thus far - well 
three actually made it online. They 
had encrypted the fourth issue 
with a public key encryption pro- 


gram and somebody lost the key so 
they're not sure just what's actu- 
ally in it since no one can read it. 


If it’s like the first three, it may be 
for the limited tastes of those en- 
amored of bathroom humor. In 
fact, the opening screen is a clever 
ASCII depiction of a man with his 
head in a toilet bow] which drains 
into a large character logo of CRAP. 
The magazine contains jokes, cru- 
dity, and basic online obscenity 
that in its own way is a bit capti- 
vating. 


Another online publication is 
Leming’s Digest, which purports to 
be the most boring publication in 
the world, delving into the depths 
of boredom and only resurfacing to 
have another go at it. 


Kakadu Connection offers an in- 
teresting twist for business callers. 
Koltai has lined up experts from 
the business community including 
a bank manager, collection agent, 
solicitor (Australian lawyer), real 
estate agent, tax accountant, and 
doctor. Each maintain their own 
area of the service and callers can 
pose questions regarding these 
specialties online. The result is a 
resource bank of business advice 
that has to be considered a trea- 
sure. 


The system uses ANSI graphics to 
good effect and provides a bit dif- 
ferent interface than you may be 
accustomed to seeing - in a refresh- 
ing way. Almost all TBBS systems 
look different and this one cer- 
tainly does. But we found it usable 
and entertaining. The local infor- 
mation about the Northwest Terri- 
tory made this a particularly inter- 
esting call. Tom Koltai, GPO Box 
1600, Darwin, NT Australia 0801 


POMPEII BBS - 
NETWORKING 
INTERNATIONALLY 


When most people think of BBS 
operators, the image of a 58 year- 
old Jewish grandmother somehow 
just doesn’t spring to mind. One 
that’s drop-dead gorgeous to boot 
would further confuse the situa- 
tion. But Zippy Manus is unique in 
many ways. Zippy started out as 
an entertainer. A ballet dancer in 
Israel, she debuted in Mid-Sum- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


mer Night’s Dream at age 10. Later 
she joined the Israeli army as a 
theatrical performer entertaining 
the troops. In 1954, she met Stan 
Manus, a pioneer in the U.S. com- 
puter industry who was lecturing 
in Israel at the time. They met at 
a sidewalk cafe and were married 
nine days later. There was a little 
problem. She didn’t speak English 
for the first year of their marriage. 
And Stan, who bears a striking 
resemblance to Albert Einstein, 
didn’t speak her language. Still, 
they moved to Los Angeles. 


She became involved in the back- 
stage operations of the local musi- 
cal theater scene serving as a cast- 
ing director, producer, writer, and 
translator for a number of local 
theater productions over a long 
and widely acclaimed career. A 
bout with cancer forced her to a 
less public, more home-bound ex- 
istence and to get her out of the 
house mentally, her husband pre- 
sented her with a modem for 
Christmas 1986. 


4] 


It worked. She became active on 
several local systems, including 
Talk Channel LA- a multiline DLX 
system. One of the callers to Talk 
Channel was Martin Judkins, an 
Englishman living in Utrech Hol- 
land who was interested in using 
DLX as a multiline social system. 
Subsequently, they met in London 
as Zippy was traveling to Israel 
and Martin was attending a two 
week communications course in 
London. He described his plans to 
set up a BBS in Utrech titled 
POMPEII. He suggested she do 
the same in Los Angeles. 


And so she did. The two became 
fast friends and worked out a 
method to link their systems to 
pass electronic mail. Currently, 
eleven U.S. and six European bul- 
letin boards participate in the IN- 
FOTRAN network, including 
Martin’s twelve line POMPEII 
EUROPE (81 3406 21400) and 
Zippys U.S. POMPEII (213-878- 
2801). Messages pass in a number 


of languages including French, 
German, Dutch, English, and a 
surprising amount of experimen- 
tation in Esperanto - designed as 
an international language some 
years ago. 


All the INFOTRANS network sys- 
tems are designed primarily as so- 
cial chat/matchmaking services 
using Richard Gillman’s DLX soft- 
ware. Martin Judkins has done 
translations of the system into 
Dutch and German. But most of 
the INFOTRANS systems are not 
really sexually oriented. Zippy 
charges $100 per year, $60 for six 
months, or $40 for 3 months ac- 
cess. But she actually interviews 
each applicant to what she thinks 
of as a private club to keep the 
system pretty interesting and 
clean. She currently has slightly 
over 200 paying subscribers on her 
24-line system. Oh, there is one 
kicker, she’s also doing a cookbook 
and in addition to the annual fee, 
you pretty much half to cough up a 
recipe to really get in her good 
graces. She spends a lot of time 
online as hostess. 


Martin Judkins, INFOTRAN Sys- 
tems, POB 3109, Utrech, The 
Netherlands, 3502GC; 31 3406 
22204 voice. Zippy Manus, U.S. 
Pompeii, 7600 Willow Glenn Road, 
Los Angeles, CA 90046. 


ECHO - EAST COAST HANG 
OUT 


by Lance Rose 


"There is *another* New York," - 
the New York of Echo. Echo is a 
bulletin board based in Greenwich 
Village in the heart of New York 
City. It is devoted wholeheartedly 
to the many splendors of on-line 
conferencing. 


That opening line is an official 
Echo slogan, and tells a lot about 
it. Echo has deep roots in the con- 
crete of Manhattan, but it creates 
a new kind of meeting place pre- 
viously unknown in this vast town. 


The first words that leap to my 
mind when I think of Echo are 
“friendly" and “fun". Echo users 
are friendly to an extent I never 
before encountered on-line (what, 
friendly New Yorkers?). Echo 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


users, known as "Echoids", include 
artists, scholars, students,, com- 
puter people, musicians, profes- 
sionals, writers, and the occasional 
stray construction worker. 


Everyone is encouraged to intro- 
duce themselves when they join 
Echo. A series of "hello" messages 
will greet the "newbies" for many 
days afterwards - returning the 
greetings can become exhausting! 
But that is just the beginning... 


There is a feeling of mutual trust 
on Echo allowing Echoids to get 
very comfortable sharing their 
thoughts and feelings with others. 
Echoids regularly share projects, 
dreams, and even such mundane 
details as taking showers and 
walking dogs. There are also those 
who choose to adopt new personas 
for their on-line lives. Other 
Echoids are ready to accommodate 
such activity, and even help con- 
struct and solidify these "virtual 
people". The warm, supportive 
side of Echo extends to conferences 
dedicated to male- only topics 
C'MOE" for Men on Echo), female- 
only topics ("‘WI'l" for Women in 
Telecommunications), and even 
"Group Therapy" and "Twelve 
Step" conferences. 


Echo friendliness is so great that it 
regularly spills past the electronic 
limits of the system. Echoids so- 
cialize in person in all sorts of set- 
tings, referred to in Echo as"F2F'"s 
(for "face-to-face" meetings). Per- 
haps the main F2F is a biweekly 
Monday night get-together at the 
White Horse Tavern in Greenwich 
Village (mainly famed as Dylan 
Thomas’ last regular watering 
hole), known as the "Echo Clique" 
meeting. The name is a bit ofa joke, 
since everyone is invited to this 
get-together, so it turns out to be a 
clique that includes everyone! 


Other F2F’s include boat rides, pic- 
nics, lunch meetings, breakfast 
meetings, "downtown cliques", 
"midtown cliques", meetings at 
concerts, meetings at Echoids’ 
homes, meetings at pool halls - the 
mind can boggle trying to keep 
track. Several Echoids in New York 
are always ready to put up travel- 
ers from out of town. At times, it 
seems New York City is just an 
extension of Echo and the Echo 
community. 


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You might have suspected I forgot 
"fun", but that’s impossible in 
Echo. Echo users are devoted to 
play. "Play" occurs at many levels: 
word play (puns and rhymes both 
bad and fine can pop up at any 
time), concept play (as is often 
heard on Echo: "The Philosophy 
Conference is thataway ----"), run- 
ning jokes, snappy one-liners, 
monumental non-sequiturs, inde- 
scribable moans and grunts, and 
stuff that depends entirely on 
rhythm or screen location (or 
both). A couple of months ago, one 
of the more active Echoids burst 
forth with a strange labor of love: 
well-wrought limericks about 
many of the more vocal Echoids, 
sprinkled all over the Plain Wrap- 
per conference. 


Uhh, Plain Wrapper? It’s known 
simply as just plain "Plain" to its 
habitues. This "anti-conference 
conference" is not a conference in 
the normal sense. It has over 400 
different topics, but rarely will you 
find a discussion in any one that 
stays even remotely on topic for 
more than two or three messages. 
In fact, the more coherent discus- 
sions in Plain usually wander hap- 
hazardly from topic to topic with- 
out regard to the headings. Plain 
is necessarily a deep immersion 
experience. Newcomers often say 
things like, “you guys are nuts", 
but within a week or so you find 
them busily carving out their own 
odd niches in the cavern walls off 
Plain. 


Plain is an enthralling exercise in 
minimal-structure conferencing. 
In the absence of externally im- 
posed structures, local myths form 
spontaneously in Plain. Chief is 
the cult of the mythical "P-Cup", 
which stands for the Parthenon 
Cup, the ubiquitous decorated 
cardboard take-out coffee cup used 
by many New York coffee shops. 
Some Echoids maintain P-Cup col- 
lections, and there is occasional 
earnest talk of an F2F pilgrimage 
to local P-Cup factories. Another 
related cult is centered on the 
Manhattan vice of drinking too 
much coffee, called "goffeee" by its 
idolaters. Other common themes 
include "mutants", "lutefisk" (don’t 
ask me), and "gross food". 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


The Echo Crew on Sabbatical at the White Horse Tavem | in Graenwien Village 


A word of slight caution: Plain is 
freewheeling and irreverent in its 
language. It is a bit coarse, bawdy, 
Chaucer plopped in a computer 
nestled among tall, peopled stone 
towers. And it’s a lot of fun. 


There are many other conferences 
on Echo, perhaps slightly more 
structured, yet sharing in the feel- 
ing expressed in purest form in 
Plain. Without meaning to slight 
others, I'll mention some of my fa- 
vorites: Panscan, run by an Echoid 
named Panman, devoted to being 
art and about art; Central, the 
entry point conference, where 
Echoids who are so inclined share 
the details of their lives; New York, 
with a pretty self- explanatory 
name, and an obligatory topic on 
favorite pizza places; and Culture, 
where Echoids reveal themselves 
as craven mass media junk culture 
addicts. 


Echo is the creation and ongoing 
project of Stacy Horn. She got her 
start in conferencing as a Mobil 
Corporation employee charged 
with creating an in-house corpo- 
rate BBS system. She eventually 
grew tired of the company’s limits 
on what she could do, so she struck 
out on her own with Echo. 


"ECHO" stands for "East Coast 
Hang Out", and was initially con- 
ceived as the East Coast answer to 
San Francisco’s Whole Earth 
Lectronic Link (WELL). Indeed, 
the user interface is modeled after 
the Well’s, and can seem a bit 
sparse to those raised on other 
BBS user interfaces. However, the 
system comes to feel friendly and 
muscular very quickly with use. 
Stacy hastens the learning process 
and initiates newbies into the Echo 
community through "Echo School”, 
a teaching session she holds at 
Echo headquarters once or twice a 
month. 


Echo is set up as a conferencing 
system, meaning it is primarily de- 
voted to public messages, e-mail, 
and some live chat. There is no 
credit for uploads, and little file 
transfer of any sort. In fact, there 
are no dedicated file transfer 
areas, though the capability is 
available for those who want to 
make use of it. 


Okay, techies: here are the hard 
specs you've been waiting for! Echo 
uses a customized version of the 
Caucus computer conferencing 
software, running under 
SCO/Xenix. It currently operates 
on a8 single 80886 with 613 MB of 
storage and ten 2400 bps modems 


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on a hunt group, with expansion 
plans imminent. Though Echo's 
physical component is smaller 
than some of the mega-systems out 
there, it creates the impression of 
a huge internal space by concen- 
trating on messaging and staying 
away from the file transfer busi- 
ness, which can sap hard disk 
space quickly. 


Echo supports over 500 users, and 
can be reached in New York at 
(212)989-8411. Members outside 
New York access Echo via PC Pur- 
suit. (The PC Pursuit $30 registra- 
tion fee is waived for Echo users.) 
Billing is monthly at a flat rate 
($18.95 or $9.95 for students and 
seniors), allowing dedicated users 
to support a habit that may occupy 
an hour or more each day. 


So ifyou’re not from New York, and 
you'd like to see "another New 
York" very different from the mass 
media image of rude cab drivers 
and purse snatchers, give Echo a 
try. If you *are* a New Yorker, and 
you just want a break from all the 
rude cab drivers and purse snatch- 
ers, then Echo may be for you. It’s 
a real nice place. 


PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE 
BBS - NUDE PET GRAPHICS 
FILE DOWNLOADS 


Penthouse Magazine is one of sev- 
eral high class color glossy period- 
icals everyone reads for the edito- 
rial matter of course. But it does 
features some remarkably de- 
tailed photographs of young ladies 
in various poses of indiscretion. 
You get to see them unencumbered 
by the valiant efforts of the Gar- 
ment Workers of America union. 


In the online world, CompuServe 
pioneered a bit-graphics format ti- 
tled Graphics Interface Format or 
GIF (pronounced, for no apparent 
reason, "jiff'). The format has be- 
come a standard in the BBS world 
and it is used primarily to carry 
pornographic photographs. Some 
are reasonably good, but most fea- 
ture strikingly plain women rather 
artlessly photographed by those 
whose higher calling is probably 
more aptly found in the building 
trades or automotive repair. 


When we learned that Penthouse 
Magazine was operating their own 
online service and making the pro- 
fessional photographs of their 
"pets" available for download in 
the GIF format, we thought it 
might be interesting to "have a 
look" so to speak. 


Well, we did look at the service (two 
of them actually). We never did get 
to see the photographs so it’s back 
to the fat chicks with donkeys on 
that score. But more importantly, 
we think we have found the 
WORST online service in the world 
using a startlingly backward com- 
bination of ridiculously high prices 
and absolutely horrible technol- 
ogy. You should spend the ridicu- 
lous amount this service costs just 
once s0 you will have a firm picture 
of just how badly it can be done. 


The start of this horror show is a 
900 number where you download a 
special terminal program. The 
number is 900-463-8300 and it 
costs $1 for the first minute and 
$0.50 for each minute thereafter. 
You access the plainest TBBS sys- 
tem in existence with four menu 
entries. One of them allows you to 
download a self extracting file ti- 
tled PETSOFT-EXE. This 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


194,379 byte file takes about 15 
minutes to download so you'll be 
out $8.00 there. We can ameliorate 
this somewhat by making the file 
available for download on the 
Boardwatch system for those who 
subscribe to it, but I wouldn’t 
bother downloading it there either 
frankly. 


The program itself installs quite 
readily and requires no technical 
knowledge. It’s actually a terminal 
program for the Minitel service. 
Many onliners have some aware- 
ness of the Minitel service avail- 
able in France and it’s often quoted 
as a success story in the online 
world. It never has actually been 
anything of the sort. It does sport 
an awful lot of Frenchmen but 
that’s because the government 
took away their telephone books 
and gave them the terminals in 
their stead. The government also 
supports this monstrous loser with 
about $750 million dollars a year 
in tax funds. My personal opinion 
is that Minitel is not only techni- 
cally just barely above signalling 
each other by throwing rocks, but 
that it is a striking example of how 
to hose off 3/4 of a billion dollars 
each year on something stupid. 


In any event, what you may not 
know is that Minitel is also avail- 
able in this country. Actually, it has 
been for years - we just didn’t think 
it was worth a story. And on a 
revisit, we were very correct the 
first time. 


The PETSOFT program includes 
local access numbers, a very easy 
to use configuration program, and 
you will find it quite easy to con- 
nect to a local Minitel access num- 
ber. This is actually the whole 
Minitel service, not just Pent- 
house, and you must provide a 
credit card number and expiration 
date. Once you do so, you’re given 
a logon name and password imme- 
diately. 


From the main menu, you can 
enter PET to go to the Penthouse 
"service" (in the bull/cow sense of 
the word). Each service on Minitel 
features a different rate that 
Minitel and the information pro- 
vider split up. In this case, it is 
$0.50 per minute ($30 hourly). 


The Penthouse service provides 
sex chat areas and the downloads 
of Penthouse Pet GIFs we were 
seeking. The service is actually 
quite easy to use if you don’t mind 
it being terribly slow and using the 
gawky mosaic graphics Minitel 
has always used. We selected aGIF 
to download. The PET software 
dumped out to a download function 
and we prepared to wait out a 169K 
file download at 2400 bps. It never 
happened. The screen informed us 
we could abort the download any 
time by pressing a "lot" of CTRL-Xs 
and it proceeded to make the trans- 
fer - counting the number of good 
1K blocks received as well as indi- 
cating the bad blocks that had to 
be retransmitted. We gave up 
when we had 12 good ones and 15 
bad ones. But the CTRL-X had no 
effect. Neither did any of the other 
keys on the keyboard. We had a 
runaway file transfer that couldn't 
be shut off, and couldn’t possibly 
complete in one night, at $0.50 per 
minute. This with a Hayes Ultra 
modem. At 65 good blocks and over 
90 bad ones, we finally pulled the 
plug on the modem and wrote the 
credit card company a letter in- 
structing them to tell these people 
to go pound sand. 


We still don’t quite know why Jew- 
ish grandmothers, handicapped 
people with no money, and eight 
year old girls all seem to be able to 
run perfectly charming bulletin 
board systems while governments, 
corporations, telephone compa- 
nies, Minitel, and Penthouse Mag- 
azine so consistently and thor- 
oughly hose the concept up. But it 
is so. In any event, you can buy the 
mag for less than four bucks on the 
newsstand and it’s much higher 
resolution. 


SAILING INFORMATION 
CENTER - PUTTING THE 
CHESAPEAKE ONLINE 


Most of the large, multiline BBS 
operating today are general boards 
featuring massive shareware file 
libraries and several hundred net- 
worked mail areas. There are also 
several large Unix "conferencing 
systems" devoted to conversa- 
tional message traffic that do 
pretty well as gathering places. 
Multiline chat services that allow 
callers to type to each other on 


screen in real time are also becom- 
ing quite popular - particularly in 
California where systems such as 
Odyssey, KBBS, and Baud Town do 
pretty well. 


The very bottom of the economic 
food chain online is the specialized 
topic or theme bulletin board sys- 
tem. They are, quite frankly, our 
hot button here at Boardwatch for 
a couple of reasons. First, they 
make good stories of course. But 
more importantly, they represent 
a new cottage industry that we 
think will change our society’s en- 
tire relationship with information. 


Our nation’s library systems are 
doing a marvelous job in going onl- 
ine. Massive card file indexes give 
callers a very broad, but relatively 
shallow, access to millions of titles 
of printed matter. Some of these, 
like the Colorado Alliance of Re- 
search Libraries (CARL) have 
databases containing millions of 
titles you can search by keyword, 
author, title, etc. But once you've 
completed your search, you wind 
up with little more than a refer- 
ence to a printed work. Eventually, 
we'll see full text online in many 
ways but the basic paradigm of 
libraries will be very broad 
searches resulting in relatively 
shallow information on topics that 
have been well published. 


There is a certain type of personal- 
ity within our human family that 
quite naturally collects informa- 
tion. We call these people "native 
librarians". They don’t have any- 
thing to do with public libraries but 
you’ve seen them at work. They 
have extensive collections of both 
knowledge and hard goods relating 
to some particular topic of passion. 
Beer can collections. Motorcycles. 
Superman memorabilia. Barbed 
wire (there’s actually as associa- 
tion of barbed wire collectors and 
they have a trade show). There is 
no topic too narrow or specious for 
someone to not only collect infor- 
mation on it, but become an expert. 
The amount of information avail- 
able on these narrow topics is in- 
credible. And the degree of exper- 
tise individuals attain on this 
"trivia" is almost frightening. 
Some of these people can look at a 
photograph and tell you "that’s a 
1952 Harley Davidson motorcycle, 
but it was built after July because 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


of the problem they were having 
obtaining the handle bar grips. See 
here, this one’s got the new grips 
they got from the new supplier. 
There’s an interesting story about 
that if you have a few minutes.....” 


The problem is, these people have 
their collections in their base- 
ments as a rule. They, and a few 
fellow enthusiasts, know about 
them and if you ever really dig into 
motorcycles, barbed wire, or what- 
ever, eventually someone will 
point you to the "guy" with the 
right stuff on the subject. BBS 
technology offers these people an 
unprecedented tool to share their 
knowledge with anyone who has a 
modem and the right ten digits to 
dial. They can profit from it, and 
the world can as well. 


The interesting thing about this 
combination is that it draws other 
people of similar - if perhaps less 
rabid - interests. And as they 
slowly congregate around a spe- 


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cialty BBS, they form a specialty 
group that associates based solely 
on this common interest - not ge- 
ography or time zone. At some 
point, as much information is com- 
ing IN to the BBS from the partic- 
ipants as flows out from the native 
librarian. And at that point, an 
element of information equity has 
developed that can’t be taken away 
by someone with bigger hard 
drives, more money, or more tele- 
phone lines. THE place to go for 
information on that topic is that 
system. ATT can’t duplicate it and 
neither can IBM - without expen- 
ditures the eventual profitability 
would not warrant. Inthe long run, 
special topic bulletin boards are 
almost invulnerable - and eventu- 
ally they will provide a modestly 
good living to the individuals and 
small cottage groups that operate 
them. And eventually, the library 
"umbrella" which is broad and 
shallow, will redirect inquiries to 
specialized information systems 
that form the "narrow and deep" 


component. At some point, virtu- 
ally all information will be ration- 
alized in this matrix and from a 
desktop computer in your home, 
you will be able to access almost 
everything known on any topic 
within a few minutes - in a reason- 
ably rational fashion. 


The power of these specialty sys- 
tems is not immediately evident 
right now for two primary reasons, 
First, it IS the bottom of the eco- 
nomic food chain online. They just 
aren’t profitable, or even plausible 
to run in any big way right now. 
Secondly, THE specialty topic onl- 
ine now revolves around the com- 
puter technology itself. Too few 
cockatiel enthusiasts have com- 
puters currently to really form up 
online very well. Woodworkers are 
working with wood - not silicon. As 
personal computers and online 
technology continues to penetrate 
deeper into everyday life and be- 
come easier to use, this will 
change. 


The economic component that will 
also help this along is the increas- 
ing drive toward targeted market- 
ing. Mass advertising is holding 
less allure for companies that 
themselves specialize. If you sell 
scuba tank regulators, an ad in 
Time Magazine or on NBC doesn’t 
pay off very well. Only a certain 
percentage of the audience has any 
interest in your product at all. 
Products are becoming more spe- 
cialized and their marketing tech- 
niques must be more specialized as 
well. While it’s nice to advertise 
your product to 10 million homes, 
it is also very expensive and may 
result in only a few hundred or- 
ders. If you could advertise to 
10,000 people who are already 
scuba enthusiasts and generate 
the same number of orders, it 
should be much less expensive. 
And special topic bulletin boards 
play to this very well. 


One of the best examples of how all 
this works that we’ve found so far 
is a system run by Darren Albert 
of Kent Island Maryland. Albert is 
an ADA programmer for a defense 
contractor in the area - but his real 
love is sailing. Living on the Ches- 
apeake Bay, sailing is a very popu- 
lar sport there. There are over 80 
sailing clubs in the area and doz- 
ens of specialty shops carrying 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


sailing equipment, devices, charts, 
radios, along with boat brokers, 
and dozens of marinas offering ser- 
vices. 


Further, sailing has an informa- 
tion problem. After whipping back 
and forth across the bay a few 
times in their sail boats, sailors 
have a naturally competitive urge 
to see who can navigate the best 
and move the fastest. The numer- 
ous sailing clubs essentially exist 
to hold races. 


Sailing races are not like foot 
races, drag races, or donkey races. 
Boats vary tremendously in design 
and speed. So sailing clubs have 
devised a seriously complicated 
class and handicapping formula. 
The result is that they sail madly, 
race all day, and at the end of it all, 
no one knows who won any of the 
races. After comparing times and 
handicaps for several hours, orga- 
nizers spend as much as a week 
phoning and faxing race results 
about in a low-tech network of 
madness to fill each other in on 
who won and why. Like many spe- 
cialized hobbies and interests, it 
may not make much sense to out- 
siders, but it is serious stuff to the 
participants. 


Albert has set up a masterful sys- 
tem for curing the race result prob- 
lem, providing the clubs a commu- 
nication forum, providing informa- 
tion on the hobby, and providing a 
means for local sailing outfitters to 
advertise their products to an ap- 
preciative and well qualified audi- 
se all at the end of a telephone 
ine. 


The SAILING IC BBS operates at 
(801)643-1466 on asingle Compaq 
computer using The Bread Board 
System (TBBS) software. It is THE 
most beautifully designed spe- 
cialty information system we've 
ever seen. The menus are colorful 
to a fault, very easy to navigate, so 
to speak, and provide a treasure 
chest of information on the topic. 


SAILING IC starts with some 
basic information useful to the au- 
dience. NOAA weather and tide 
information on the Chesapeake 
Bay is available daily along with 
USA Today Newspaper. Albert has 
recruited a local writer specializ- 


ing in sailing topics and Karen 
Paape’s Sailing News is updated 
regularly. 


The file areas are a bit Spartan - 
but quite focused on the sailing 
theme with wind chill calculators, 
tide prediction programs, naviga- 
tion programs, a sunrise/sunset 
calculator, Morse code tutor, 
weather forecasters, astronomy 
programs, a sailing simulator, and 
an FCC radio exam tutorial. GIF 
images of various sailing areas 
such as the Bahamas are avail- 
able. Albert has recently acquired 
some scanning equipment and 
vows to put a GIF of every boat on 
the bay online. 


Albert has also set up a menu list- 
ing 86 different yachting clubs op- 
erating in the area and has poli- 
ticked heavily among the local 
groups to bring an impressive 
number of them online. Each menu 
entry leads to what is effectively a 
separate bulletin board for that 
club. An attractively graphic title 
screen for each club lists a few 
menu entries for each club includ- 
ing a general information file 
about the history of the club, mem- 
bership, and purpose; a member- 
ship application; club newsletter, 
and discussion and file areas 
where club members can discuss 
recent events. Many of these club 
areas have events calendars and 
almost all feature race results from 
recent events online. Other club 
areas featured crew sign up func- 
tions where you could sign up to be 
part of the crew on various voyages 
and sail outings - a free ride if you 
don’t mind a little swabbing of 
decks and heaving of ho. 


The race results are of course one 
of the main draws. A few hours 
after the close of the race, the club 
uploads the race results and they 
immediately become available to 
everyone 24 hours per day. 


Another aspect of the Sailing IC we 
found impressive was the obvious 
work that went into the Marine 
Mall. Complete contact informa- 
tion for 34 yacht brokers, 66 mari- 
nas, 15 financiers specializing in 
boat loans, 21 sail makers, chart 
and map companies, and 33 char- 
ter services operating in the area 
are very easily accessible. While 
most menu entries for these vari- 


ous operations led to simple name, 
address, and telephone/fax infor- 
mation, some of them held exten- 
sive information. These are essen- 
tially the paid ads supporting this 
system - which is totally free to 
callers. 


Hartge Yacht Sales in Gatesville is 
an example. It features an again 
graphic ad screen with menu items 
for an ASCII map showing how to 
get there, a list of boats available 
for charter, and a database of 
yachts currently for sale. If you 
find the $625,000 they’re asking 
for a 63-foot 1987 Gulfstar a bit 
proud, you might like their 55-foot 
Roberts Ketch built in 1977 to be 
just the ticket at $169,000. We 
were disappointed to find very lit- 
tle in the $250 luxury class. 


One of the most charming, if cur- 
rently a little thin, areas we found 
was a public message area where 
sailors described “memorable voy- 
ages". One entry was virtually a 
10K article describing a somewhat 
ill-fated journey to Bermuda that 
would have made Gilligan’s Island 
pale by comparison. Other areas 
include discussions and announce- 
ments of interest to sailors - we saw 
one message detailing information 
on some recreational vessel user 
fees proposed as part of a Congres- 
sional Highway bill. 


The SAILING IC overall gives the 
impression of just being enormous 
with a massive collection of infor- 
mation, clubs, and merchants all 
revolving around the very central 
theme of sailing on the Chesa- 
peake Bay. According to Albert, 
support for the system, which has 
been in operation barely six 
months, is just not a problem. 
They’ve had plenty of callers and 
selling the merchants on the con- 
cept of an ad area on the system 
essentially consists of telling them 
about it. And despite the conserva- 
tism of the local sailing clubs, some 
of which date back to 1989 or ear- 
lier, Albert claims most of them 
he’s talked to have been delighted 
with the free service. He does note 
that there are just a lot of them (86) 
and it will take time to get around 
to all of them to demonstrate the 
service while working a full-time 
job, but eventually he’ll be there. 
When he does, SAILING IC will 


not only provide a marvelous infor- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


GORDON L. GILLESBY & SON 


mation service to Chesapeake Bay 
sailing enthusiasts, but will un- 
doubtedly become THE informa- 
tion service on the topic in that 
area. That will be the Defense 
Industry's loss. Sailing IC BBS, PO 
Box 1012, Stevensville, MD 21666; 
(301)643-1466 BBS. 


BBS FOR THE 
HANDICAPPED - 
THE TOP TEN 


by Gordon L. Gillesby 
Life’s a bitch. Then you die. 


Cheerful, huh? But the reason that 
little ditty evokes a chuckle out of 
most people, is the bit of truth re- 
siding at its core. Life IS hard, 
often we find the light at the end of 
the tunnel turns out to be an on- 
coming train. The burgeoning pop- 
ularity of online information and 
the BBS community is due, in part, 
because they provide a faster, eas- 
ier way to deal with the stuffof life. 
And life, as a result, becomes a 
little less hard. 


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For some, life is harder than for 
others. Regardless of whose statis- 
tics you use, 15% - a minimum of 
30 million people - of United States 
citizens are permanently physi- 
cally disabled. That’s the rock bot- 
tom estimate, too. Most authori- 
ties feel the real number is, at 
least, twice that. It soars by an 
order of magnitude when you con- 
sider the rest of the planet. For you 
skeptics, these numbers DON’T in- 
clude the elderly. 


Boardwatch has seen what few 
others have: for people with dis- 
abilities the online community is a 
very exciting place of possibilities. 
To understand what PCs do for us, 
you first must understand what it 
is to be handicapped and that’s 
nearly impossible. The scope of dis- 
ability and how it affects individu- 
als is extraordinarily complex. 


Consider the small things most 
people take for granted: imagine 
what happens when sight, hear- 
ing, ability to move is lost. Or one 
of 6000+ rare and chronic diseases 
drastically alters your finances as 
well as your health. 


How many times have you walked 
into or out of your home this week? 
Popped off in the car for a few 
forgotten groceries at some conve- 
nience store? Watch your cat walk 
across the room? When was the 
last time you had a pain free day? 
Did you see your son play his first 
baseball game or your daughter 
attend her first prom? Can you 
make your own meals? Balance 
your own checkbook or answer 
your own mail? Perhaps you can 
BEGIN to see what we go through. 


People with disabilities often find 

these kinds of things difficult, not 
from lack of intelligence, but for 
lack of ability to manipulate the 
objects required. That’s pretty de- 
pressing, but it’s not been written 
for sympathy: being disabled 
doesn’t make people worth less; it 
alters the way we must live. People 
with disabilities are just like ev- 
erybody else: all we want is a fair 
chance to be all we can be! Most of 
us find ways to cope, ifnot improve, 
our lives. But it’s not a “level play- 
ing-field" and we’re often expected 
to make progress in unrealistic 
ways by friends, family, doctors, - 
even ourselves. 


We're talking EMPOWERMENT: 
the ability to take control of our 
own affairs, doing for ourselves the 
same things - to the same extent - 
as others. Big talk, but that’s what 
it’s about. Finding ways for the 
hearing impaired to see what they 
cannot hear, ways for the visually 
impaired to hear what they cannot 
see and ways for the immobile to 
access what has been inaccessible. 
That personal computers can be 
adapted for use by the visually, 
hearing, or mobility impaired indi- 
viduals is well established. By 
making computer technology ac- 
cessible to us, a significant step 
toward self-realization has be 
achieved. 


Largely, however, the application 
focus of the accomplishment has 
been focused on employment. But 
Boardwatch readers are smart 
enough to know that’s just the tip 
of the iceberg: accessible PC’s 
means the whole vast online world 
goes way beyond jobs and makes 
possible a real chance to improve 
the quality of life for people with 
disabilities unparalleled in any 
other technology form. 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


Online, PC’s not only help us find 
jobs, but find friends as well. It 
allows us to become just as in- 
volved in the world as any other 
CyberSpace traveler. It even al- 
lows participation with others 
without forcing us to reveal that we 
are disabled unless we choose to do 
so. The field doesn’t get much more 
level than that. That's nothing less 
than breaking down the visible 
and invisible walls of disability. It 
is nothing less than freedom. 


Others are already infected with a 
vision of what the online commu- 
nity can do for people with disabil- 
ities. Most of them are disabled, 
themselves - no surprise. It’s also 
no surprise that some have found 
their principal tool to be running 
their own BBS. I found myself cu- 
rious about the boards, how PwDs 
(People with Disabilities) are 
using online community and what 
are the important issues to them. 
It didn’t take me long to set out on 
a CyberSpace safari to survey the 
world of Disability BBSing and the 
sysops who maintain them. 


I started by compiling a list of 
boards listed as "disability BBS” 
from a very old list of files from 
HEX - Handicapped Educational 
Exchange. Unfortunately, it 
turned out the information it con- 
tained was outdated. From there, 
I tumbled onto Dr. Ed DeGrosso’s 
Black Bag BBS list taken from 
Denver Deaf-Net. Bill Scarbor- 
ough from Yellow Dream Machine 
pointed me to Handicapped News 
where I picked up a better list com- 
piled by Bill Mcgarry which I com- 
bined with the Black Bag list. For 
over six months, I’ve visited nearly 
200 BBS systems that could, in 
some sense, be considered "disabil- 
ity" boards. !'ve amassed nearly 20 
megabytes of log files, screen 
dumps, system master file lists 
and a phone bill big enough to qual- 
ify me for AT&T Retirement Pian. 


[ve found many worthy boards as- 
sisting people with handicaps and 
even more worthy sysops who are 
not content to sit and let "someone 
else” do it. Along the way, [ve com- 
piled a list of the good, the bad, and 
the ugly. It wasn’t my intention to 
play "Siskel and Ebert” but I ended 


with a very informal, intensely 
personal (and probably biased) rat- 
ing system. 


But it was the people, not the tech- 
nology, that impressed me the 
most. Here are men and women 
willing to work with each other to 
better the world for all disabled 
people. No partisan politicking, no 
turf-grabbing, no information 
withheld for personal profit. They 
are very willing to form alliances 
and coalitions if it will have a pos- 
itive impact for the greater good. 
These are, by and large, innovative 
sysops who understand its neces- 
sary to make use of available tech- 
nology and to push the envelop on 
its development, as well. And I was 
touched by the degree these sysops 
make personal sacrifices to keep 
their boards operational. 


These sysops tell me that STILL 
TOO FEW PEOPLE WITH DIS- 
ABILITIES HAVE ACCESS TO 
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. It’s 
hard to live on a fixed income and 
find money to spare so it’s still too 
expensive to purchase computers 
or learn to operate them. There’s 
also the problem of funded re- 
sources: more exist to help the 
helpers than to help the people 
with disabilities. End result: the 
growth rate of computer use 
among the disabled is dis- 
proportionately low compared to 
the growth rate elsewhere in our 
society. 


Like the general population, some 
boards were good, many were av- 
erage and a few could be wiped off 
the face of the earth without loss. 
Nearly every sysop taking the time 
to call or chat ended up listed. Ed- 
itorial deadlines and lack of money 
prevented me from visiting every- 
where. If you want to know what’s 
happening in the world of online 
and the physically disabled, these 
are the best places to start - I sug- 
gest you visit them all and get in- 
volved supporting their important 
work. 


The standard of living for any 
society can rise no higher than the 
standard imposed on its least for- 
tunate members. 


4 SIGHTS NETWORK (312)272- 
7111 (data); Greater Detroit Soci- 
ety for the Blind: 16625 Grand 


time interaction with your users. 


about $330 per month. 


River, Detroit, MI 48227; 
(313)272-3900 (voice). They run 
PicoSpan, a Unix-based Con- 
ferencing Program (version T3.1a) 


4-Sights has been around since 
1985 and administrator, Mary 
Beth Kullen, is most helpful and 
extremely patient with people un- 
familiar with computing. Accord- 
ing to her, "4-Sights Network en- 
ables workers for the blind and 
blind persons... to obtain necessary 
information more easily, to utilize 
it more efficiently, and to apply it 
more effectively toward the com- 
mon goal of successful rehabilita- 
tion." Despite being a UNIX sys- 
tem, it wasn’t terribly unfriendly - 
although it was a bit terse. But 
Marybeth (as she’s known online) 
is the BEST online hand-holder 
[ve ever encountered. The Net- 
work is organized by subject mat- 
ter into conferences. The informa- 
tion stored here applies to a wide 
range of physical handicaps and 
has one of the few forums on Public 
Policy. There’s also information 
about computers and software, 
along with Rehab Resources, 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS: The Bad: if your BBS is depending on GIFS now, you might be toast. The 
Good: you can toast the competition with color VGA file sizes of SK-10KI 


IF YOU WERE AT FIDOCON this August you may have seen us download a color VGA image in 4 to 7 
SECONDS. As a BBS professional, we don’t have to hype you on what this means: a new phenomenon is 
upon us, one we might have expected with fibre optics and ISDN, but not over ordinary phone lines. 
Fractal image compression, not JPEG data compression is the key to graphic files small enough for real 


HOW IT’S DONE: The system uses a proprietary, full length hardware compression board for the ISA bus, 
with an i960 processor on board. Your user downloads a software decompression utility, and 

(using V32bis) will see the image within 7 seconds (10K file]. Optimal images about 20K. The full length 
board costs $8850 ($7965 for Sysops) and the fee is $2 per paid user. Leasing may be available for 


You can also do grey scale and full-motion video over phone lines with this card. Gentlemen, start your toasters. 
Call CARDZ BBS at (604) 734-5400 (HST) (604) 734-5901 (2400B), or voice at 1-800-676-3111 


Multi-Handicapped Services, Job 
Placement Exchange, Specialized 
Training Facilities and Link Up 
Magazine. 


Although the system does show 
some signs of age, files and mes- 
sages are kept up to date with cur- 
rent information helpful to a broad 
range of disabilities, not just the 
VI. Accounts are validated prior to 
access but that generally happens 
within 24 hours. Online help anda 
manual are available with a hard- 
copy available for the asking. 
Kudos on a job well done. 


ADANET (AL) running under The 
Connection RBBS: (205)854- 
0698/2308 (HST node)/ 
5863/9074; Disability Law Foun- 
dation - P. O. Box 374, Pinson, AL 
385126; (205)856-0738 (voice), 
(205)833-3222 (fax) using PCB- 
oard Premium Remote Bulletin 
Board Service Version 14.5/E6. 


A non-profit organization founded 
by Bill Freeman, Marlin Johnson, 
Tim Carter, and Jim Hoover spe- 
cializing in Disability Law and 


BBS REAL TIME 
VGA GRAPHICS! 


i—————7 amp) = VANCOUVER 8C 
| -_ «4 CANADA v6 |22 
7 a sae TEL: {604} 732-8400 
FAX: [604] 732-8412 


Technology. Their growth has been 
explosive despite their poverty. Ac- 
cording to Freeman, a recent grad- 
uate from Cumberland Law 
School, "We’re poor folk!" He talks 
with the classic southern drawl 
and adds, "The greatest need in the 
disability community is connectiv- 
ity. We’re in the process of expand- 
ing by seeking other bulletin 
boards interested in disability is- 
sues to join in making ADAnet a 
national network dedicated to 
serving the disabled community." 


The strong suit of DLF is advent of 
the Americans with Disabilities 
Act of 1990. "It’s even more impor- 
tant,” argues Freeman, "that the 
disabled access information and 
become independent through use 
of technology.” ADAnet seeks to ed- 
ucate and serve the disabled com- 
munity helping them compete in a 
technological world by bringing to- 
gether doctors, lawyers, the dis- 
abled and those working with the 
disabled to share technology infor- 
mation in a cooperative effort. 


Although, The Connection is a sub- 
scription board, all disability infor- 
mation and files are freely accessi- 
ble. All conferences, 12 and above, 
are focused on disability issues in 
one form or another and there are 
over 16 file areas for software as- 
sociated with disabilities. Once ad- 
equate funding is received, ADA- 
net will become in independent 
BBS operation. 


I believe ADAnet and DLF will be- 
come a significant driving force be- 
hind the accessibility of technology 
for PwDs - IF and it’s a big if - IF 
they can get the funding they need. 
They are a non-profit operation 
and most of them, regardless of 
disability their own disabilities, 
have to hold some other part-time 
job just to get food on the table. 
This is one place to send spare 
change, after all ADAnet is serving 
America’s Disabled Community 
and you can write off on your taxes 
as a charitable contribution. 


BAYTALK (CA) (415)864-6430 
(data) BayTalk Computer Users 
Group - Box 369 Berkeley, Califor- 
nia 94701 running the T.A.G. Bul- 
letin Board System - Version 2.5 
operating on an IBM compatible 
computer with 230 megs of hard 
disk space and a 2400 baud 
modem. 


A fee-free system serving visually 
and otherwise physically impaired 
persons and friends, BayTalk is 
run by sysop Tom Karnes with able 
assistants Janina Sajka and Don- 
ald Belew along with "Hardware 
Guru" Richard Lesnick. Their goal 
is providing information about 
computer access for persons with 
visual and physical impairments 
both through online facilities and 
regular group meetings heldon the 
third Tuesday each month (except 
December) at Kam’s Restaurant, 
2068 Center Avenue in Berkeley 
which, I'm told, is a half block west 
of the downtown Berkeley BART 
station. The meeting begins at 6 
p.m. and lasts about two hours. 
Dinner costs about $5 - such a deal! 


According to Karnes, "We try to 
keep the business part short so we 
can give more time to guest speak- 
ers and group interaction.” If the 
BBS is any indication, their pro- 
grams should be both informative 
and interesting. Their member- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


ship rate is $12 per year and mem- 
bers receive a monthly newsletter 
along with software library disks 
for only $2 (normally $4). Member- 
ship dues also helps support the 
BBS. 


I liked this board because of the 
diverse nature of the files and 
areas of interest. Of course there 
was the usual technical stuff and 
an area for VI but there was also 
news, catalogs, games, food reci- 
pes, religion, a writer’s corner and 
a humor file. If you’re HaD/PwD 
and live anywhere close to the bay 
area...you should be on this board. 
It has a lot to offer and some dedi- 
cated people who working to make 
it be all it can be. 


COMMUNITY INFORMATION 
CENTER (NY) (716)293-2692 
(data) OPUS-CBCS v1.13 Fido-net 
1:260/225. Rochester Chapter 
ACM\SIGCAPH - P. 0. BOX 
92487, Rochester, NY 14692; 
(716)477-1391 (voice). 


SIGCAPH, the Association of Com- 
puting Machinery’s (ACM) Special 
Interest Group on Computers and 
the Physically Handicapped. A 
special interest group promoting 
computing information technology 
towards solutions of disability 
problems. Sigcaph is open to all 
individuals with a serious interest, 
not just disabled individuals and 
computing professionals. It was 
founded in Rochester, NY in 1984 
and has monthly meetings Al Sigl 
Center with full access to the dis- 
abled. 


This board owes its existence to 
sysop John Zima, an engineer from 
Eastman Kodak who literally built 
this system out of spare parts in 
his basement. It’s not been online 
long, but it has made a mark for 
what it’s already done. 
CIC/Sigcaph supports a local 
membership around 100 working 
with hospitals, making equipment 
loans and repairs, and operating a 
"loan closet” of X-10 systems (re- 
mote control devices). It will soon 
be TDD operational and it’s funded 
from individual donations and a 
small ACM grant. 


They also founded and are the 
principal sponsors of The Adaptive 
Computer Olympics. A yearly 
event generally held in late May at 


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Edison Technical High School in 
Rochester, NY. Participation has 
been growing in both the number 
contestants and volunteers over 
the last couple of years. This year 
25 contestants competed and the 
winner received an IBM Personal 
Computer, It is an enormous un- 
dertaking, so it is currently limited 
to those in the Rochester area; 
however, they are considering a 
possible expansion of the project 
should sufficient interest and vol- 
unteers appear. Kimberely Ganley 
is CIC’s ACO Organizer. 


BBS file areas _ include 
S.I.G.C.A.PH. Files, Rochester 
Agencies for the Disabled, cover- 
age of Americans with Disabilities 
Act, Education for All Handi- 
capped Children Act, Handicapped 
Digest files, and three national 
echos: Silenttalk ABLED, and 
Blinktalk (it’s expanding it confer- 
ences and echo coverage). 


This is what "grass-roots comput- 
ing" is all about, it won’t dazzle you 
with fancy menu or state-of-the- 
art hardware, but it’s proof that 
people can use technology and the 
online community to help them- 
selves and each other. This board 
deserves national recognition, if 
for no other reason than the Adap- 
tive Computer Olympics which 
may have greater value than some 
holiday tele-thons I could mention. 
But there are other reasons includ- 
ing the ties to ACM which should 
provide a focal point for academics, 
researchers and corporate disabil- 
ity computing issues. It’s a shame 
ACM, itself, doesn’t make this a 
priority funded project. 


DCCG - Disabled Children’s 
Computer Group (415)841-5621 
(data) running QBBS version 2.66 
with Front Door version 1.99c on 
an IBM XT, 20MB hard drive and 
2400 baud modem. FidoNet Node 
161/40. Disabled Children’s Com- 
puter Group 2095 Rose street, 
Berkeley CA; (415)841-3224 
(voice). DCCG is a non-profit di- 
rected toward facilitating PwD ac- 
cess to the world of adaptive tech- 
nology with a specific focus on chil- 
dren. Thy maintain a site with a 
large selection of adaptive devices 
for people to come in and "test 
drive". They also provide advise on 
available equipment and informa- 
tion on funding resources. 


DCCG BBS started after Guy 
Thomas met David Clark at the 
World Institute on Disability. Says 
Thomas, "we were both disabled 
and both had been bbsing for years. 
We decided to start a disability-re- 
lated board together." Though 
their connection with WID failed 
to blossom, they met Bill George of 
PC Clubhouse and Lisa Wahl, di- 
rector of DCCG. Wahl felt a BBS 
would make a good outreach pro- 
gram. With sysops Thomas and 
Clark at the helm, the board has 
local forums for disabled adults 
and children and distributes them 
to nine Bay Area boards affiliated 
with PC Clubhouse. They also 
carry three Fido echoes: dis- 
ABLED, BLINKTALK, and 
SILENTTALK as well as originat- 
ing a California echo, CA ABLED. 


Again I'm impressed with how 
much can be done when sysops 
take an active part in running a 
board. There is no fancy equipment 
here, just dedication and focus on 
an area largely untapped else- 
where: children with disabilities 
and adaptive technology. It was the 
focus on children’s needs that 
brought this board from OKAY+ 
into TOP TEN. It makes me won- 
der what DCCG could do if they 
had state-of-the-art equipment at 
their disposal. 


HANDICAPPED NEWS (CT) 
(203)337-1607 (data) running 
Opus 1.038c on an Olivetti M-28 PC 
with a 50MB disk and a 2400 baud 
modem. This board is dedicated to 
distributing information for the 
handicapped and is run by sysop 
Bill McGarry (203)337-1518 
(voice). 


T’ve no idea how this man does all 
that he does or what he lives on in 
the meantime. If there was a board 
WORTH paying for, this is it. He 
maintains the most comprehen- 
sive list of PwD Boards I could find 
anywhere - boards, literally, from 
around the world! Messages and 
files abound. Nearly all are heavily 
trafficked. Most of the conferences 
carried concern the handicapped: 
ABLED, Spinal Injury, Chronic 
Pain, Silent Talk, BlinkTalk, Advo- 
cacy, etc. to name but a few (1 
counted 37). Its also the gateway 
between FidoNet and the Handi- 
cap News news group (misc.hand- 
icap) on Usenet which distributes 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


to over 8 thousand computers 
users throughout the world. Hand- 
icap News is distributed in digest 
form as the Handicap Digest and 
is electronically mailed to thou- 
sands of people on other networks 
such as Internet, BITNET, 
ARPANET, DECNET, etc. 


One of the premier PwD BBS in the 
country. Anyone with the slightest 
interest in the world of PwD com- 
puting: stop by here, explore and 
participate! If yourun a PwD BBS, 
make this a regular stop to update 
information and schmooz with 
other sysops of your kind. This is 
one of the few boards which gets 
my unqualified endorsement and 
it’s one of my five favorites. 


METRO INFOLOOK (NY) 
(212)831-9280 (data) a subscrip- 
tion BBS ($15.00/month) Metro 
On-Line Services, Ltd. P.O. Box 
6849, New York, NY 10128 
(212)996-9880(voice), (212)996- 
7907 (fax), and try METRO HotL- 
ine Voice BBS (212)996-6868. A 
commercial multi-line system pro- 
viding live international chats, an 
electronic matchmaker, Public 
Message Boards, a CD ROM li- 
brary of over 15,000 programs, 
files and digitized photos for IBM, 
MAC, Atari and Commodore; a 
Database Subsystem, INFO-MAT 
magazine, UPI News, NewsBytes 
Magazine and three syndicated 
columns. A member of the CatNet 
Network featuring NetMail to over 
18,000 active BBS members na- 
tionwide, METRO is accessible via 
Global Interconnect’s Worldwide 
Network providing local telephone 
access in 1000 cities from 80 coun- 
tries. 


This is my effort to be objective. I 
have some difficulty with subscrip- 
tion services - not that 'm against 
free enterprise - but because [m 
afraid too many PwDs can’t afford 
to participate. To be fair, Metro 
MAY offer a discount to PwDs, I 
don’t know. Why did it make the 
TOP TEN? I could say it’s because 
of TONS of files for all computer 
types. Or the massive number of 
conferences on every type of 
human interest. Of course, there’s 
also the international chatting. Or 
access to current events and public 
information. All true, but for 
PwDs, that’s not what makes this 
board worth the time and money. 


$1 


Tzipporah Benazrahm has got to 
come close to being the most well- 
informed person I’ve ever known 
concerning PwD using computers 
or anything remotely connected to 
adaptive technology. The woman 
posts over 100 new files EACH 
MONTH (I had trouble finding 
PwD boards posting that many in 
a year!). Short and sweet: if 1 HAD 
to pay to join ONE fee-based PwD 
BBS, this is where I'd pluck down 
my cash. You’ll have your finger on 
the pulse of the PwD world. 


NERD’S NOOK (OH) [aka 
Nerd’s Nook II & Neuropsycho- 
logy Bound] (216)356-1431 
(HST 14.4/v.42); (216)366-1772 
(HST/Dual 14.4 v.42bis/v.32bis); 
(216)356-1872 (HST) FidoNet 
(since 1985) 1:157/2 3 & 4 using 
BinkleyTerm Version 2.40 PCB- 
oard v14.5a/E6 operated by Help- 
Net for the Impaired, Inc. - 23146 
Lorain Rd., Suite 313, N.Olmsted, 
OH 44070; an Ohio Non-Profit Cor- 
poration founded in 1990. Sysop 
Butch Walker has had the system 
online since November 10, 1985 
with Over 145+ Message and Con- 
ference areas. 


HelpNet, Inc. maintains NERD’S 
NOOK as the anchor to an inter- 
national network of BBS systems 
promoting Self-Help Electronic 
Support Groups allowing individ- 
uals with impairments to commu- 
nicate with others facing similar 
challenges. Their goal is bringing 
hospitals, rehab centers, profes- 
sionals and Institutions into this 
network, providing impaired indi- 
viduals, their care givers, and in- 
terested parties local access to 
help, support and information. An 
important part of HelpNet is work- 
ing with educational institutions 
establishing programs to train 
people with disabilities how to ef- 
fectively use computers. HelpNet 
is entirely a volunteer effort - none 
of their Board of Directors, all ex- 
ecutives and professionals from 
the Cleveland area, receives any 
compensation. 


Nerd’s Nook BBS offers Message 
Bases, Files, Bulletins, Online 
Games and Programs providing in- 
formation on disabilities, other 
medical and psychological topics, 
topics of interest to adults, and 
help with some software programs 
in the business environment. Top- 


ics cover everything from Adopt- 
ees, Alzheimers, or Amputee 
through Rare Conditions, Pain, or 
Stock Market to Ventura Plus, 
Vietnam Veteran, or Visually Im- 
paired. Says sysop Butch Walker, 
"The rest you see is pretty much 
icing on the cake. Computers and 
education are the keys to increas- 
ing the quality of life for someone 
suffering from an impairment." 


The board started in October of 
1985 in Concord, California as one 
of the first BBSs in the country to 
carry echomail and the first Fido- 
Net Echomail Backbone system in 
the world. It’s been an avid partic- 
ipant in the growth of Fido, Opus, 
QuickBBS, Lynx, Seadog, & 
BinkleyTerm, plus utilities such as 
ArcMail, Confmail, etc. Walker is 
understandable proud of his ef- 
forts, 'Td like to think Nerd’s Nook 
has had an impact on BBSing. Not 
to the extent of (Ward) 
Christiansen or (Tom) Jennings, 
but Nerd’s Nook played a major 
role in getting Echomail from a 
dream to where it is today." 


The Nook in another of my five 
favorites. Lot’s of features, intu- 
itively organized and responsive. 
Plenty of online help and Butch 
keeps close tabs on what’s happen- 
ing in the HaD/PwD world, in part 
because he’s the moderator for 
many of the FIDO echos dealing 
with disabilities. 


TEDINET (VA) (703)759-2424 
running Searchlight BBS System 
Version 1.76M, TEDI-NET is oper- 
ated by Telecommunications Ex- 
change for the Deaf, Inc. - Box 508 
Great Falls, VA 22066; (703)759- 
2993 (voice or TDD) on equipment 
obtained through a grant from the 
Capitol IBM PC Users Group. 


TEDI is a non-profit organization 
servicing speech and/or hearing- 
impaired. Their primary service is 
the relay of telephone calls be- 
tween the hearing and hear- 
ing/speech impaired from 6 a.m. to 
11 p.m. seven days a week (emer- 
gency calls, only, after 11 p.m.). 
TEDI has offices in Rockville, MD, 
Great Falls, VA, andon the campus 
of Gallaudet University in Wash- 
ington, DC. They also operate the 
Info Line (703)759-2488 in Vir- 
ginia or (301)251-1990 in Mary- 


- Boardwatch Magazine - 


land or DC to get weather and 
other information via TDD calls or 
3800 Baud ASCH. 


Esther Schaeffer, president of 
TEDI, along with Bill Smith and 
Randy Mays (volunteers) handle 
the sysop chores for Tedi-Net bul- 
letin board. Primarily oriented on 
the hearing/speech impaired, the 
board is open to the public for post- 
ing private or public messages, in- 
formation bulletins and files. 


This board made my hit-parade 
because it was the most active HI 
(Hearing Impaired) board I found. 
Lots of information files and soft- 
ware - most quite current. There 
appears to be steady message traf- 
fic and quite a few people from the 
HI community seem to make it a 
point to stop by on a regular basis. 
A good place to catch the pulse of 
what's happening among the hear- 
ing and speech impaired! 


YELLOW DREAM MACHINE 
(TX) (612)451-3222 The very first 
BBS I called, YDM is run by Bill 
Scarborough and has already been 
featured in Boardwatch. Bill and 
sidekick-of-the-day Gene Kile gave 
me my first lesson about boards for 
and about PwDs during our three- 
hour online chat. Thanks, Bill and 
Gene. You became the model for 
the TOP TEN rating (believe it or 
not, I wrote that BEFORE seeing 
the article in the last issue of 
Boardwatch). 


{ Gordon Gillesby is writer dis- 
abled by a chronic disease pro- 
cess and volunteers as the Di- 
rector of Information Re- 
sources, United Handicapped 
Federation, Suite 284 South, 
1821 University Avenue, St. 
Paul, MN 55104; (612) 645-8922. 
Jacqueline T. Alfonso, Executive 
Director. - Editor] 


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Bruce’s Bar & Grill (203)236-3761 
West Hartford, Connecticutt since 
08/83. Sysop: Bruce Lomasky. Using 
TBBS 2.1M with 24 lines on MS-DOS 
80386 with 300 MB storage. U.S. 
Robotics at 14400 bps. No fee. Bruce’s 
Bar and Grill has a similar atmosphere 
to TV’s "Cheers". Public, Private, and 
Over 21 Conference Sections. Many 
regulars stop by and chat each day. 
Many online games (some multiuser 
real time) and thousands of IBM files. 
Hayes/Telebit(USR 9600 


Camelot (213)397-2106 Los Angeles, 
California since 03/89. Sysop: Jeff 
Jordan. Using Custom written 1.0 with 4 
lines on Custom built mini with 800 MB 
Storage. Hayes at 2400 bps. No fee. 
Career oriented international on-line 
database system. Place electronic 
resumes on the system which 
professional recruiters from all over the 
world search to get you the best paying 
career. Also a free intemational social 
register database just started. 


The Comm-Post (303)534-4646 
Denver, Colorado since 06/86. Sysop: 
Brian P. Bartee. Using TBBS 2.2 with 8 
lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 2500 MB 
storage. U.S. Robotics D/S at 14400 
bps. $35/6M $50/Year fee. An 
ASP-Approved BBS with one of the 
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Pinecliffe BBS (303)642-7463 
Pinecliffe, Colorado since 01/84. Sysop: 
Craig Baker. Using Ultrabbs 2.02 with 6 
lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 2200 MB 
storage. U.S. Robotics at 2400 bps. No 
fee. FREE BBS! (But for $20/yr get TWO 
HOURS PER DAY & NO DOWNLOAD 
LIMIT!) Lots of files, some oddball 
echomail conferences. Many online 
games & tournament! Sysop usually 
available for chat. 9600 bd HST line at 
(303)642-0703. Come help us growl 


The Eagle’s Nest BBS (303)933-0701 
Littleton, Colorado. U.S.A. since 03/87. 
Sysop: Ron Olsen. Using QuickBBS 
2.75 with 1 line on MS-DOS 80386 with 
212 MB storage. U.S. Robotics at 9600 
bps. No fee. Winner in the 1990 Nifty 
Fifty and Top 100 contests. This BBS is 
not theme based and free to all. Paid 
memberships offered but not required. 
212Meg of file areas and many 
message boards. All msgs to the Sysop 
are personally answered. Give us a try. 


THUNDERBOLT! (312)248-4822 
Chicago, Illinois since 02/91. Sysop: 
ZEUS. Using Galacticomm 5.3 with 4 
lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 105 MB 
storage. Compudyne at 2400 bps. $0.60 
Hourly fee. Offers BBSing with a 
classical mythology theme--featuring 
Special Interest Groves, Oracles, Quest 
for Magic, Cupid’s Quivers, Auction 
Block, Flash Games, The Arena, and 
Toga Party! SIGs also contain 
Shareware direct from authors! Many 
new features!! 


Chicago Syslink (312)622-4442 
Chicago, IL. since 06/81. Sysop: 
George Matyaszek. Using TBBS 2.2 
with 11 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 
130 MB storage. Multitech at 2400 bps. 
$20 Annually fee. Voted as #1 BBS in IL. 
in Computer Shopper for 1991 & 90, 
Chicago Syslink now _ features 
multi-line chat, 25+ online games, Ferret 
Forum, Bell Business Report and much 
more. Call today using Connect USA 
long distance network or direct and have 
some FUNI 


leBBS - International Electronic BBS 
(415)572-8239 San Francisco, CA since 
09/91. Sysop: Otto Fung. Using TBBS 
2.2M[16] with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80386 
with 135 MB storage. U.S. Robotics at 
14400 bps. No fee. Anew system in CA. 
Real time chat on 4 lines system. Wild 
area of FILE and MESSAGE selections. 
FidoNet 1:204/100. Support fo TBBS, 
Windows 3.0..USR Du! StandrdModem. 
Finest BBS in town. All with *NO FEES* 


Cul-de-Sac Bar & Grill (508)429-1784 
Holliston, Massachusetts since 03/85. 
Sysop: Pete White. Using TBBS 2.1M 
with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80286 with 380 
MB storage. U.S. Robotics at 14400 
bps. $45 Hourly fee. The home of many 
TBBS/TDBS software packages, and an 
almost continuous beta site for many 
TBBS/TDBS software authors. Like 
Ben Cunningham's 10,000 message 
system with full screen editing and 
quoting, and Jeff Johnsons On-Line 
Sales Manager. 


CONNECT AMERICA (512)459-3351 
Austin, Texas since 06/84. Sysop: 
Charles Curtis and Staff (5). Using 
WILDCAT! Release3.0 with 10+ lines on 
MS-DOS 80386 with 5000 MB storage. 
CompuCom/HST/V.32 at 19200 bps. $ 
35 mo. $60Yr. fee. 
PC-Pursuitable*10Lines+*FAST 
16Mhz286/386's*Novice? Voice Line 
Support for Members*Members Lines 
almost NEVER BUSYI*FILES=12,000+ 
*CONFERENCES=100+*On-Line 
GAMES=50+*FUNI*FAMILY and 
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*FRED FISH DISKS *IBM/MAC/AMIGA/ 
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The P.D.S.L.O. Network 
(516)938-6722 Hicksville, New York 
since 08/86. Sysop: James Toro. Using 
TBBS 2.1M with 18 lines on MS-DOS 
80486 with 3400 MB storage. UDS at 
9600 bps. $25 Annually fee. Home of 
"THE LUST National BBS List, Multi-line 
Chat, Online Games. 2485+ PC-SIG 
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Uploaded Files. Infomat, USA Today 
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(518)562-9452 since / . Sysop: . 
Using with line on with MB storage. 
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devoted 100% to classified advertising. 
Large national audience “Online” 
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THE PROMISED LAND (715)387-1339 
Marshfield, WI since 01/90. Sysop: Tim 
Brown. Using Custom Major BBS with 
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MB storage. U.S. Robotics at 9600 bps. 
$hrly .60-.95 fee. 11,000+ files for 
WINDOWS, IBM, AMIGA, APPLE, 
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Multiplayer Games, Regional/ National 
Conferences. 2HR FREE DEMOPAK 
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The Passport System BBS 
(816)229-1841 Kansas City, Missouri 


since 08/84. Sysop: Gary Wood. Using 

PCBoard 14.5 with 6 lines on MS-DOS The A kK R O M 

80386 with 2200 MB storage. V.32 at 

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1500 MB storage. U.S. Robotics at 
19200 bps. $15 up Annually fee. 
Thousands of files on-line rollover 
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